TY - JOUR
KW - COVID-19
KW - Humans
KW - Pandemics
KW - Personnel Selection
KW - SARS-CoV-2
KW - Social Justice
AU - C. J. Peek
AU - M. Allen
AU - J. T. Pacala
AU - W. Nickerson
AU - A. Westby
A1 - 
AB - Family medicine departments see elevating equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI)* as socially necessary and as powerful in achieving core missions. The importance and timeliness of this longstanding issue in medicine are magnified by the COVID-19 pandemic with its disproportionate effect on communities of color and by civil unrest focused on racial justice. EDI plays out in three pillars: (1) care delivery and health, (2) workforce recruitment and retention, and (3) learner recruitment and training. People are at very different places with EDI work with regard to knowledge, experience, comfort and confidence. This is a wide-ranging developmental challenge, not a narrow, technical, or quick fix. The Immediate Goal: To make a strong start in taking all faculty and staff on a participatory journey that brings changes in everything they do, using inclusive means to this inclusive end. Initial Achievements: An inclusive process that resulted in (1) a shared intellectual framework-definitions with "north star" goals across the three pillars of EDI action, (2) shared acceptance of need for change, (3) top growth areas with actions to take, and (4) harnessing the energy for action-many volunteers, a visible leader, and charge. Ongoing Action: Application of an equity lens to department relationships, specific incidents, tools and education, policy review, and measures development. Invitation to Further Conversation Among Departments: EDI work can quickly create a shared intellectual framework and broadly engage people in taking a department down its developmental path. Operating principles for undertaking such work are offered for conversation among departments.
AD - Department of Family Medicine and Community Health, University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis, MN.; Department of Family Medicine and Community Health, University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis, MN.; Department of Family Medicine and Community Health, University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis, MN.; Department of Family Medicine and Community Health, University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis, MN.; Department of Family Medicine and Community Health, University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis, MN.
BT - Family medicine
C5 - Education & Workforce; Healthcare Disparities
CP - 9
CY - United States
DO - 10.22454/FamMed.2021.569762
IS - 9
JF - Family medicine
LA - eng
M1 - Journal Article
N2 - Family medicine departments see elevating equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI)* as socially necessary and as powerful in achieving core missions. The importance and timeliness of this longstanding issue in medicine are magnified by the COVID-19 pandemic with its disproportionate effect on communities of color and by civil unrest focused on racial justice. EDI plays out in three pillars: (1) care delivery and health, (2) workforce recruitment and retention, and (3) learner recruitment and training. People are at very different places with EDI work with regard to knowledge, experience, comfort and confidence. This is a wide-ranging developmental challenge, not a narrow, technical, or quick fix. The Immediate Goal: To make a strong start in taking all faculty and staff on a participatory journey that brings changes in everything they do, using inclusive means to this inclusive end. Initial Achievements: An inclusive process that resulted in (1) a shared intellectual framework-definitions with "north star" goals across the three pillars of EDI action, (2) shared acceptance of need for change, (3) top growth areas with actions to take, and (4) harnessing the energy for action-many volunteers, a visible leader, and charge. Ongoing Action: Application of an equity lens to department relationships, specific incidents, tools and education, policy review, and measures development. Invitation to Further Conversation Among Departments: EDI work can quickly create a shared intellectual framework and broadly engage people in taking a department down its developmental path. Operating principles for undertaking such work are offered for conversation among departments.
PP - United States
PY - 2021
SN - 1938-3800; 0742-3225
SP - 786
EP - 795
EP - 
T1 - Coming Together in Action for Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion
T2 - Family medicine
TI - Coming Together in Action for Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion
U1 - Education & Workforce; Healthcare Disparities
U2 - 34287818
U3 - 10.22454/FamMed.2021.569762
VL - 53
VO - 1938-3800; 0742-3225
Y1 - 2021
Y2 - Oct
ER -