​ANTI-RACISM PLEDGE

We acknowledge the presence of systemic racism and injustices in the medical field which negatively impact our patients, families, and communities. 
Therefore,

• We pledge to provide equitable health care to the communities we serve regardless of race, ethnicity, or any other identities.

• We pledge to educate ourselves on the racial injustices, social determinants of health, and health disparities that adversely affect our patients and their outcomes.
• We pledge to speak up and speak out for our patients and colleagues whenever we bear witness to racial injustices, inequities, and healthcare disparities.
• We pledge to champion diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging of all people in all matters.

We pledge to be anti-racist.

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WAYS TO REPORT MICROAGGRESSIONS

Talk to your chiefs! (call, text, email!)
See Front Page for DEI on-call representative
Anonymous feedback tool monitored by Milica (Click here!)
Hospital-wide Bias Reporting Tool monitored by Ken (Click here!)

Other contacts:
Manager of EDI Initiatives: Ken Milstead ([email protected]), Cell: 571-243-5771, Office: #78448 (15-016 ADA)

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HOSPITAL POLICIES

Biased PAtient Behavior Toward Staff

Patient Family Preferences Refusal of Care

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ANTI-RACISM RESOURCE GUIDE

Our program values the diversity of each class in order to create a rich training environment for our housestaff. We match applicants from a variety of cultural and ethnic backgrounds, genders, religions, as well as trainees from the LGBTQIA+ community. 

Resource Guide

Pipeline programs for urms

LGBTQIA+

Northwestern has an LGBTQ OutList and AllyList on their website. These are public and voluntary listings of members in the McGaw community intended to foster visibility and awareness of both allies and members of the LGBTQ community. Please feel free to join and reach out to any listed members!

LGBTQ Outlist

LGBTQ Ally List

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ANTI-RACISM EDUCATION

Advocacy Committee Book Recommendations

• How to be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
• White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin DiAngelo
• Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present by Harriet A. Washington
• Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics, and Big Business Re-create Race in the Twenty-first Century by Dorothy Roberts
• Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
• The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
• The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
• Homecoming by Cynthia Voigt
• The Case for Reparations by Ta-Nehisi Coates

ANTI-RACISM IN MEDICINE 

Dismantling Hurdles: A Path Forward for UIM Pediatric Applicants
Dr. Rebekah Fenton [email protected] | Dr. Adrienne Smallwood [email protected]

Summary Articles: 

• Personal essay by Dr. Rebekah Fenton, MD, fellow in Adolescent Medicine at Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago, is a summary of UIM student experiences and the qualms Black students have about a virtual process: Can't We Do Better to Support Minorities in Medicine?
• Article by Highland Emergency Medicine residency reviewing their recruitment policy changes and results The Diversity Snowball Effect: The Quest to Increase Diversity in Emergency Medicine: A Case Study of Highland's Emergency Medicine Residency Program ​

Inequities in pre-med and medical school experiences:

• Pre-med dropout rates: The Leaky Pipeline: Factors Associated With Early Decline... : Academic Medicine
• Pre-medical school educational debt: Figure 10. Amount of premedical education debt for U.S. medical school matriculants by race/ethnicity, academic year 2018-2019
• STEP 1 scores and impact of cut-offs on admissions: - The impact of United States Medical Licensing Exam (USMLE) step 1 cutoff scores on recruitment of underrepresented minorities in medicine: A retrospective cross-sectional study - Racial Bias in Using USMLE Step 1 Scores to Grant Internal... : Academic Medicine
• Predicted STEP scores across all 3 exams: Examining Demographics, Prior Academic Performance, and... : Academic Medicine
• Clinical grading scores: Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Clinical Grading in Medical School
• Alpha Omega Alpha Honors Society selection: Racial Disparities in Medical Student Alpha Omega Alpha Membership
• Letters of Recommendation descriptions: Differences in words used to describe racial and gender groups in Medical Student Performance Evaluations
• UIM representation in graduating medical students: Figure 13. Percentage of U.S. medical school graduates by race/ethnicity (alone), academic year 2018-2019