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UC Riverside School of Medicine Accepts Inaugural Class of California Medicine Scholars

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The UC Riverside (UCR) School of Medicine has accepted its first class of California Medicine Scholars. This spring, these community college students from inland Southern California will receive academic support as they pursue medical education. CMSP has four RHHOs.

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Navigating Microaggressions: A Call for DEI Education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

In fact, marginalized students in medical school report higher rates of implicit bias throughout their education, perpetuating the underrepresentation of diverse practitioners and emphasizing the need for enhanced DEI programs in medical education. Healthcare practitioners from diverse backgrounds face similar microaggressions.

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Dr. Charles “Chipper” Griffith III Appointed Dean of UK's College of Medicine

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Charles “Chipper” Griffith III will become dean of the University of Kentucky (UK) College of Medicine, effective Jul. He previously has served in a number of roles at UK, including vice dean for education, senior associate dean for medical education, associate dean for student affairs, physician, and professor.

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Morehouse School of Medicine Looks to Disrupt Health Inequities

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

At Morehouse School of Medicine (MSM), disrupting and erasing health disparities is more than just part of their mission statement. Achieving equity in health care and education is in everyone’s best interest from a population health perspective, a business perspective, and a moral perspective.”

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Yale Internal Medicine Will Work to Increase Vaccination in Prison Populations

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

While 49% of incarcerated individuals have faith in medicine, doctors, and the health care system at large, only 9% are confident in the care of doctors and healthcare within prisons, according to a March 2022 report from the Correctional Association of New York, an independent organization that monitors the state’s prison population.

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Dr. Chemen Neal Appointed Executive Associate Dean and CDO for Indiana University School of Medicine

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Chemen Neal will become executive associate dean and chief diversity officer (CDO) for the Indiana University’s (IU) School of Medicine, effective Feb. Neal spoke about the importance of diversity in medicine for the sake of better health outcomes. “I from The University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine and a B.S.

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A New Paper Defends the Use of Race in Medicine. Not Everyone is Convinced.

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Bernard Ackerman professor of the culture of medicine at Harvard University. That doctors use race in medicine provides a precedent for people to think that race is real,” Jones said. “It “Any of these race-corrected tools require you to put the patients in one of these buckets—Black versus white,” said Dr. David S. Jones, the A.

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