- Value: Reduce Unnecessary Variations in Care by Personal Characteristics
- Engagement: Provide Patient and Family Centered, Culturally Effective Care
- Inclusion: Ensure a Diverse and Inclusive Clinical Learning Environment
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Value
Imperative: Reduce Unnecessary Variations in Care by Personal Characteristics
Priority Actions:
- Stratify institutional quality metrics by personal characteristics
- Establish a customizable dashboard for ongoing reporting of equity metrics by department
- Enhance systems to ensure accuracy and consistency of data collection of race/ethnicity, gender, and sexual orientation
- Integrate equity into existing quality improvement efforts
- Establish a multidisciplinary health equity task force of key stakeholders to guide strategic solutions
Engagement
Imperative: Provide Patient and Family Centered, Culturally Effective Care
Priority Actions:
- Establish educational curricula for house staff and faculty on cultural humility and implicit bias
- Require online training for employees that interface with patients on cultural humility and implicit bias
- Include patient stakeholders on health equity task force
Inclusion
Imperative: Ensure a Diverse and Inclusive Clinical Learning Environment
Priority Actions:
- Establish training methods designed to improve recruitment, selection, evaluation, and promotions of a diverse body of house staff and faculty
- Institute leadership training in holistic review and implicit bias for organizational change
- Integrate inclusion and diversity efforts into wellness initiatives and professionalism standards
- Integrate inclusion and diversity efforts into wellness initiatives and professionalism standards
- Collaborate with staff training initiatives that promote culturally effective and equitable care
- Coordinate with and highlight efforts of the Office of Inclusion and Diversity (OID) and its graduate and undergraduate medical education anchor programs