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Status Key: Completed in AY 2022 Completed & Ongoing for AY 2023 New for AY 2023 On time for AY 2023 Restructured for AY 2023

Infrastructure

  • Develop DEI departmental committee with resident, faculty, and staff participation.

    Status: On time

    101 Implicit Bias Training

    2 Grand Rounds Lectures per Academic Year on DEI

    Modified Diversity AAMC Survey for the Department of Surgery

    DEI Committee 

    Person/Dept Responsible: Luigi Pascarella

Access and Success

  • Surgery DEI Committee

    Status: On time
    1. Surgery DEI Committee
    2. Implementation of Social Justice Curriculum during Surgery Clerkship
    3. Participation in the Castillo Diversity Scholarship
    4. Participation of Faculty in the SOM Interviews

    Person/Dept Responsible: Luigi Pascarella

  • Implementation of Social Justice Curriculum during Surgery Clerkship

    Participation in the Castillo Diversity Scholarship

    Participation of Faculty in the SOM Admissions Committee

    Status: On time
    1. Surgery DEI Committee
    2. Implementation of Social Justice Curriculum during Surgery Clerkship
    3. Participation in the Castillo Diversity Scholarship
    4. Participation of Faculty in the SOM Interviews

    Person/Dept Responsible: Luigi Pascarella

  • Holistic review of application for surgery residencies 

    Status: On time

    Dr. Meyers, General Surgery PD to discuss application for GS Residency and possible creation of a taskforce to review URM Applicants

    Person/Dept Responsible: Luigi Pascarella

  • Recruitment of a Faculty 

    Status: On time

    DEI Website

    DEI Training for Surgery Leadership

    Person/Dept Responsible:

Climate and Intra/Intergroup Relations

  • DEI Certificate for Faculty

    Status: On time

    Creation of a Scorecard to assess progress of DEI  Training (Collaboration with Office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion)

    Person/Dept Responsible: Luigi Pascarella

  • DEI Grand Rounds

    Safe Zone Training

    Status: On time

    Person/Dept Responsible: Luigi Pascarella

Curriculum and Scholarship

  • Enhance scholarly output with looking at these issues with respect to our field.

    Status: On time

    Incentive for peer-review publications

    Person/Dept Responsible: Luigi Pascarella

  • DEI Vice Chair Position 

    Annual Reviews with Chair 

    Status: On time

    DEI Vice Chair Position 

    Annual Reviews with Chair 

    Person/Dept Responsible: Luigi Pascarella

Community Engagement

  • Social Justice Curriculum

    DEI Grand Rounds

    Status: On time

    Collaboration with Medicine Clerkship on Curriculum Implementation

    Dr. Nichols Lectures

    Person/Dept Responsible: Luigi Pascarella

  • Standardization of SOM Curriculum among sites 

    Status: On time

    This was implemented during the previous academic year and it is on going.

    Person/Dept Responsible: Luigi Pascarella