Diversity Statement

Our Department of Family Medicine values health equity, diversity, and inclusion. We are committed to achieving equity in patient outcomes, recruitment, promotion, leadership, and retention. As such, our aim is to build cohorts of trainees and leaders who are exceptional, strive for excellence, and reflect and encourage equity, diversity, and inclusion.

We are committed to fostering a diverse medical community in a supportive and respectful environment. We believe that faculty and trainee diversity is a meaningful component of excellence that can enhance our teaching, learning, and delivery of care. Diversity is multidimensional, encompassing life experience, sex, gender, race, sexual orientation, national origin, ethnicity, physical ability, spiritual beliefs, and intellectual approach. Diverse perspectives can enhance the quality of intellectual exchange and advance our mission, vision, and strategic plan. We respect and value our patients, faculty, staff, residents, and students. Our commitment affects our clinical care, education, professional interactions, research, and scholarship.

These commitments and aims arise from us working with safety net health centers and hospitals. We are privileged to care for a richly diverse patient population who come from a broad spectrum of racial, ethnic, linguistic, socioeconomic, spiritual, and cultural identities. Delivering high-quality, patient-centered care requires not only respect for these differences, but active efforts to treat every patient and each other with dignity, compassion, and cultural respect.