Welcome New Interns to MedStar Health

Guest Blogger:
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:


  1. 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. 
  2. 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.
  3. 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. 

 
Together we can make a difference.  OneMedStar, OneGME, OneTeam. 

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