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New IOM Report Indentifies Institutional and Policy-Level Strategies to Increase Racial and Ethnic Diversity Among Health Professionals
You are cordially invited to a public briefing of a new Institute of Medicine report, "In the Nation's Compelling Interest: Ensuring Diversity in Health Professions," on February 5, 2004, from 2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. in Room 100 of the National Academies' Keck Center, 500 Fifth St., N.W., Washington, D.C.
This report, commissioned by the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, examines institutional and policy-level strategies - defined as specific policies and programs of health professions schools, their associations and accreditation bodies, health care systems/organizations, and state and federal governments - to increase diversity among health professionals. Specific issues addressed in the report include:
- Admissions policies and practices of health professions education institutions;
- Public (e.g., state and federal) sources of financial support for health professions training;
- Standards of health professions accreditation organizations pertaining to diversity;
- The "institutional climate" for diversity at health professions education institutions; and
- The relationship between Community Benefit principles and diversity.
A panel of the IOM study committee that authored the report will present the report's findings and recommendations, and will answer questions. Panelists will include Lonnie R. Bristow, M.D., past-president of the American Medical Association and chair of the study committee; Colleen Conway-Welch, Ph.D., R.N., Dean of the Vanderbilt University School of Nursing and vice-chair of the study committee; Lisa Tedesco, Ph.D., Vice President and Secretary of the University of Michigan; Judith Winston, J.D., Winston Withers and Associates; and Joseph Betancourt, M.D., Director for Multicultural Education, Massachusetts General Hospital and Partners HealthCare.
Prepublication copies of the report will be available for sale at the event.
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