The Diversity Promise: Success in Academic Surgery and Medicine Through Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
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This text discusses the structure and implementation of this innovative program, covering topics such as building an open and inclusive environment for faculty, mentoring and sponsorship, leadership and research development, outreach and global health, attracting talented medical students developing talent in residents and much more.
Disability as Diversity: A Guidebook for Inclusion in Medicine, Nursing, and the Health Professions
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1st edition - Disability as Diversity helps to contextualize disability inclusion in health-care education as a function of social justice and a mechanism of reducing health care disparities for patients. This resource connects the moving parts necessary to ensure equal access for qualified students and provides a blueprint for crafting policy, proactive messaging, improving climate, adhering to accreditation standards, addressing licensing and board exams, responding to student failure, all while remaining compliant with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and applicable Federal regulations.
Equal Curriculum: The Student and Educator Guide to LGBTQ Health
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1st edition - This textbook marks a revolutionary effort to reform medical education nationally by providing a comprehensive, high-quality resource to serve as a foundation for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) health education across multiple disciplines. Addressing the decades-long unequal weight of medical education generally offered about the care of LGBTQ people, The Equal Curriculum was created to advance clinicians' competencies in optimizing the health of LGBTQ people.
Handbook for Culturally Competent Care
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This book delves into 32 different cultures and areas of support common to all individuals and families that health professionals must recognize and consider. For each culture, chapters detail communication styles, family roles, workforce issues, biocultural ecology and high-risk health behaviors. Also discussed are nutrition, pregnancy and child bearing, death rituals, spirituality, healthcare practices, and the perceptions of traditional, magico-religious, and bio-medical healthcare providers. Culture's characteristics - such as age, generation, gender, religion, educational/marital/parental/socioeconomic or even military status, but also political beliefs, physical characteristics, sexual orientation or gender issues - determining the diversity of values, beliefs, and practices in an individual's cultural heritage in order to help prevent stereotyping are discussed. At the end of each chapter, readers are provided with specific instructions, guidelines, tips, intervention strategies, and approaches specific to a particular cultural population.
Succeeding in Academic Medicine: A Roadmap for Diverse Medical Students and Residents
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1st edition - Providing a practical approach to increasing diversity and inclusion in academic medicine, this book outlines career opportunities and associated responsibilities, how to transform academic-related work to scholarship and offers a look into the academic appointment and promotion process.
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