Department of Surgery, University of Minnesota, North Memorial Health, Minneapolis, MN.
Department of Surgery, Duke University, Durham, NC.
Ann Surg. 2018 Sep;268(3):403-407. doi: 10.1097/SLA.0000000000002937.
The leadership of the American Surgical Association (ASA) appointed a Task Force to objectively address issues related to equity, diversity, and inclusion with the discipline of academic surgery.
Surgeons and the discipline of surgery, particularly academic surgery, have a tradition of leadership both in medicine and society. Currently, we are being challenged to harness our innate curiosity, hard work, and perseverance to address the historically significant deficiencies within our field in the areas of diversity, equity, and inclusion.
The ASA leadership requested members to volunteer to serve on a Task Force to comprehensively address equity, diversity, and inclusion in academic surgery. Nine work groups reviewed the current literature, performed primary qualitative interviews, and distilled available guidelines and published primary source materials. A work product was created and published on the ASA Website and made available to the public. The full work product was summarized into this White Paper.
The ASA has produced a handbook entitled: Ensuring Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion in Academic Surgery, which identifies issues and challenges, and develops a set of solutions and benchmarks to aid the academic surgical community in achieving these goals.
Surgery must identify areas for improvement and work iteratively to address and correct past deficiencies. This requires honest and ongoing identification and correction of implicit and explicit biases. Increasing diversity in our departments, residencies, and universities will improve patient care, enhance productivity, augment community connections, and achieve our most fundamental ambition-doing good for our patients.
美国外科协会 (ASA) 的领导层任命了一个特别工作组，旨在客观地解决与学术外科相关的公平、多样性和包容性问题。
外科医生和外科领域，尤其是学术外科，在医学和社会中都有着领导传统。目前，我们面临着利用我们内在的好奇心、努力工作和毅力来解决我们领域在多样性、公平性和包容性方面存在的历史意义上的重大缺陷的挑战。
ASA 领导层要求成员自愿参加一个特别工作组，全面解决学术外科中的公平、多样性和包容性问题。九个工作组审查了现有文献，进行了初步定性访谈，并提炼了可用的准则和已发表的主要来源材料。特别工作组在 ASA 网站上创建并发布了工作成果，并向公众开放。完整的工作成果被总结在这份白皮书里。
ASA 已经出版了一本名为《确保学术外科中的公平、多样性和包容性》的手册，该手册确定了问题和挑战，并制定了一系列解决方案和基准，以帮助学术外科社区实现这些目标。
外科必须确定需要改进的领域，并不断努力解决和纠正过去的缺陷。这需要诚实和持续地识别和纠正隐含和明确的偏见。在我们的科室、住院医师培训计划和大学中增加多样性将改善患者护理，提高生产力，增强社区联系，并实现我们最基本的愿望——为患者做好事。
