Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

Meeting the Needs of Our Patients 

• In-Person Interpreter Services for more than 8 languages, including the 2 most common dialects of Chinese

Interpreter Services Demographics (FY20)

Total Encounters per Fiscal Year

• Asian Community Health Focus – meeting the health needs of the surrounding community with health care professionals who speak Asian languages
• LGBTQ+ Health – providing both routine and sub-specialized services to the LGBTQ community

Anti-Racism Task Force

• Who we are: Karen Freund; Richard Kopelman; Laura Snydman; Imrana Qawi; Suriya Jeyapalan; Arhant Rao; Seda Babroudi; Sami Hamdan
• Mission statement: Making our department a space where everyone belongs and is part of the conversation 
• Initiatives
  • Bias Reduction in Medicine Training
    • Faculty from all subspecialty divisions have been formally invited
    • Over 200 physicians to date have been trained
    • Training of housestaff by faculty facilitators is ongoing  
    • https://brim.medicine.wisc.edu/index.php/overview/
  • Monthly noon conferences dedicated to topics directly related to diversity, equity, and inclusion; examples include Addressing Code Status with Non-English Speaking Patients; Complex Care
  • Management and Trauma-Informed Care; Anti-Racism in Medicine: Awareness to Action
  • Visiting Clerkship Program for Student Underrepresented in Medicine
    • Visiting Student Flyer
    • Visiting Student Application

Health Equity Research

• Program on Equity in Science and Health – addressing research disparities in health care and diversity in the biomedical workforce
  • Special focus: Translating Research into Practice (TRIP) – reducing racial disparities in breast cancer by creating and participating in the Boston Breast Cancer Equity Coalition
  • Special focus: Studying racial disparities in cancer care by participating in the Cancer Health Disparities Network (CDRN) Cohort
• Quality Improvement Dashboard of the Department of Medicine – a resident-led initiative in which a registry was created to study and address potential health disparities amongst patients admitted to Tufts Medical Center 
• Participation in the NKF-ASN Task Force to reassess inclusion of race in the diagnosing kidney disease Race-Equation

Affiliated Institutions and Health Systems