Welcome New Interns to MedStar Health
Guest Blogger:
Jamie Padmore, DM
Jamie Padmore, DM
VP Academic Affairs, MedStar Health
Sr. Associate Dean for Medical Education, Georgetown University Medical Center
For all of us in medical education,
this is the most wonderful time of the year! In the past week, we greeted
our 300 new interns to MedStar Health. And in the first time in my
30-year career history, it was done virtually on Zoom. While COVID-19 has
presented us with many challenges such as this, we have used these challenges
to innovate and create new ways to connect, communicate, and educate. For
example, physicians and associates from around the system created a welcome video to
express how excited we are to meet all of our new residents. It was so
much fun to watch, and it was a great way to kick off orientation!
We also held our June GME Town Halls. You can watch the recording by accessing www.MedStarGME.net.
During
the town halls, Dr. Evans and I both had the opportunity to discuss MedStar’s
position on diversity and inclusion, as well as actions we are taking within
our academic community to begin to change racial injustice and health
disparities. I committed to three immediate next steps:
- We will provide space and schedule forums for us to have reconciliation conversations together. These conversations will provide us with opportunities to share, learn, and grow together.
- I am charging our academic leadership to create working groups composed of residents, fellows, and faculty to discuss, inform, and make recommendations to me on actions we should take within our academic community, and within MedStar Health, to make tangible changes to improve diversity, equity, and inclusion.
- We will move swiftly to create diversity and inclusion strategies for recruitment and selection of residents and clinical faculty, as stipulated by the ACGME in 2019. I will provide resources and structure for our program directors and clinical leaders to develop these recruitment and selection strategies that can be implemented as early as this fall.
These three
steps are just a beginning. In order for us to create actionable and
sustainable change, we must all work together to share, listen, contribute, and
develop additional steps forward. I will use this weekly update to
provide information on next steps and opportunities for each of you to
contribute and participate.
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