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Department of Ophthalmology

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Infrastructure

  • Status: Completed

    Creation of Departmental DEI Committees

    Person/Dept Responsible: DEI Cmte

Access and Success

  • Support Carolina First Look and other Office of Inclusive Excellence recruitment initiatives (Ongoing)

    Status: On time

    Person/Dept Responsible: Knight

  • Enhance recruitment of under-represented in medicine (URM) trainees to department of ophthalmology residency and fellowship training programs
    (Ongoing)

    Status: Completed

    Enhance residency selection practices and policies to favor increased URM recruitment

    Person/Dept Responsible: Budenz, Knight, Zhang

  • Increase training opportunities for ophthalmic assistants and ophthalmic technicians

    Status: On time

    Person/Dept Responsible: Armstrong, Roberts

Climate and Intra/Intergroup Relations

  • Status: Completed

    Complete Departmental DEI SWOT Analysis

    Person/Dept Responsible: DEI Cmte

  • Status: Completed

    Complete modified AAMC Diversity Engagement Survey

    Person/Dept Responsible: Department

  • Status: Completed

    VDDEI and EDDEI meet with DEI Cmte

    Person/Dept Responsible:

  • Coordinate department-wide DEI Training consistent with Social Justice Task Force Recommendations

    Status: On time

    Person/Dept Responsible: Knight, Armstrong, Roberts

  • Department Leadership to complete Racial Equity Institute Training

    Status: On time

    Person/Dept Responsible: Budenz, Knight

Curriculum and Scholarship

  • Annual DEI Grand Rounds

    Status: Completed

    10/2020 – Eve Higginbotham, SM, MD, ML

    Person/Dept Responsible: Budenz

  • Update UNC medical student curriculum to include active learning techniques and ophthalmology specific SDOH consistent with Social Justice Task Force recommendations
    (Complete for Summer 2021)

    Status: On time

    Person/Dept Responsible: Knight, Zhang

  • Increase research activity examining ophthalmology specific health outcomes in North Carolina

    Status: On time

    Person/Dept Responsible: Department

  • Examine racial/ethnic disparities in ophthalmology residency selection process (Ongoing

    Status: On time

    Person/Dept Responsible: Knight

  • Status: Completed

    Develop and curate content for AAO Resident Diversity and Inclusion Education site: https://www.aao.org/diversity-and-inclusion-education

    Person/Dept Responsible: Knight

Community Engagement

  • Status: Completed

    Support American Academy of Ophthalmology Minority Ophthalmology Mentoring Program (Annual)

    Person/Dept Responsible: Department

  • Provide leadership to NMA Ophthalmology URM recruitment and training initiatives (Ongoing)

    Status: Completed

    Planning of annual Rabb-Venable Excellence in Ophthalmology Research Program
    Coordination of multi-faceted mentorship program for URM students preparing to apply for ophthalmology

    Person/Dept Responsible: Knight

  • Increase utilization of patient navigators

    Status: On time

    Person/Dept Responsible: Ervin, Roberts

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