GME Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
We aspire to create a health care community where all members are respected, valued and heard. Together we strive to maintain a working and learning environment that is inclusive and equitable.
Vision:
To help create a health care delivery system that is inclusive, diverse, equitable, and committed to a world without health care disparities.
Mission:
Through education, collaboration, and recruitment we are building a diverse and inclusive health care community in an environment committed to equity, well-being, sustainable culture change and safety .
Our Initiatives:
- Health Equities Curriculum for residents
- COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy questionnaire
- LQQBT health training – Hudson Valley LGBTQ Community Center
- Gender Allies: badge buddy pronouns (see example)
- Microagressions Tool Kit (download here)
- Women Mentorship
- Holistic review in residency application
- HEDI- Nuvance Health Employee Resource
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Resources:
Nonfiction Books
Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism by Safiya Umoja Noble
Being Mortal by Atul Gawande
Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Black Man in a White Coat: A Doctor’s Reflections on Race and Medicine by Damon Tweedy M.D.
Black on Both Sides: A Racial History of Trans Identity by C. Riley Snorton
Caste by Isabel Wilkerson
Coolie Woman by Gaiutra Bahadur
Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower by Dr. Brittney Cooper
Are You My Mother? By Alison Bechdel
Global Health Ethics: Key Issues (2015) from the World Health Organization: http://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/10665/164576/1/9789240694033_eng.pdf?ua=1
How To Be An Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
In the Country We Love: My Family Divided by Diane Guerrero with Michelle Burford
King Leopold’s Ghost by Adam Hochschild
Medical Apartheid by Harriet A. Washington
My Own Country by Abraham Verghese, MD
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander
Seeing Patients: Unconscious Bias in Healthcare by Augustus A. White III, MD
Toxic Silence: Race, Black Gender Identity, and Addressing the Violence against Black Transgender Women in Houston by William T. Hoston
Unforgetting: A Memoir of Family, Migration, Gangs, and Revolution in the Americas by Roberto Lovato
Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? By Beverly Daniel Tatum, PhD
The Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon
The World According to Fannie Davis by Bridgett M. Davis
Fiction and Poetry
Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Citizen: An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine
The curious Incident of the dog in the nighttime by Mark Haddon
Deacon King Kong by James McBride
Homeland Elegies by Ayad Akhtar
The Old Drift by Namwali Serpell
Ordinary Girls by Jaquira Díaz
The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo
The Shadow King by Maaza Mengiste
A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki
This Mournable Body by Tsitsi Dangarembga
The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
The Undocumented Americans by Karla Cornejo Villavicencio
An Unnecessary Woman by Rabih Alameddine
Electronic Resources
VisualDX
- Includes the world’s best dark skin atlas and most equitable image collection of disease presentations in people of all skin colors.
- Full Clinical Content and Image Library
- More than 400 Patient Handouts in English and Spanish
- Mobile Device Access (iOS and Android Devices)
Documentaries
Black in Latin America by Henry Louis Gates
“Black Men in White Coats,” https://trailer.bmwcmovie.com/trailer1602557931782
“Fire & Flood: Queer Resilience in the era of Climate Change,” https://www.queerecoproject.org/firefloodfilm
Freedom Riders by Stanley Nelson
“Picture a Scientist,” https://www.pictureascientist.com/
Race the Power of an Illusion | California Newsreel
Tribal Justice by Anne Makepeace
Websites
“Talking About Race,” from the National Museum of African American History
Resources for Race, Equity, and Inclusion by We Need Diverse Books (This is an organization that has long advocated for diverse writers, publishers, and bookstores)
“Asset Based Community Development”, Sustaining Community (This is a nice discussion, with an emphasis on the glass being half-full: “What is the essence of our community that makes it unique and strong?)
Anti-racism resources for white people – Google Docs
Hollaback, an organization that trains people, groups, and organizations to prevent harassment, intervene in safe ways, and support those on the receiving end of harassment.