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Advocacy, Community, and Engagement (ACE)

ACE at Highland

Promotion of advocacy, community, and engagement (ACE) is a core tenet of our IM Residency Program. We provide education, mentoring, and support to develop structural competency and literacy for our residents. Our faculty recruitment and development aim to ensure that all faculty support our trainees and our community. In 2020, our Program Director initiated the formation of the ACE Task Force to advance system-wide effort to improve DEI efforts and better support our house staff. In addition, we also launched a Black Lives Matter Curriculum Group to re-evaluate our curriculum, patient care practices, invited speakers, and retreat workshops to ensure that we are advancing equity and inclusion throughout our program and our hospital. To ensure inclusion in our residency program, we have an established Housestaff ACE Committee that sends representatives to national meetings to recruit highly qualified, diverse applicants. Our efforts are apparent in our current class of residents: 45% are underrepresented in medicine and 79% are speak a language other than English. Of our most recent graduates, 59% are members of underrepresented minority groups and 59% now practice in areas of unmet medical need. As a Program, we are committed to reflecting, growing, advocating, and learning how to better incorporate DEI into our residency, our patient care, and our lives.

IM Residency Program DEI
Resident BLM Statement

HIGHLAND HOSPITAL

Caring, Healing, Teaching, Serving All

To graduate physician leaders who will provide high-quality, biopsychosocially oriented, culturally relevant care to vulnerable populations.

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