R.L. Byyny is executive director, Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society, Aurora, Colorado, chancellor emeritus, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, Colorado, and a retired internal medicine physician. D. Martinez is chief of staff, Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society, Aurora, Colorado. L. Cleary is associate dean for curriculum, senior associate dean for education, vice president for academic affairs, and AΩA chapter councilor, State University of New York, Upstate, Syracuse, New York. B. Ballard is associate dean for continuing medical education, chairman and professor of pathology, and AΩA chapter councilor, Meharry Medical College, Nashville, Tennessee; ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7202-2506. B.E. Barth is associate professor, emergency medicine, and assistant dean for student affairs, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, Kansas; ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3996-1346. S. Christensen is a psychiatry resident and drug abuse and research training fellow, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, South Carolina; ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0702-1862. W. Eidson-Ton is professor of family medicine and obstetrics and AΩA chapter councilor, University of California, Davis, Sacramento, California. D. Estevez-Ordonez is a neurosurgery resident, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, and a student director, AΩA Board of Directors. J. Fuhrer is associate dean for admissions, director, HIV Treatment Center, associate professor of medicine, and AΩA chapter councilor, Renaissance School of Medicine, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York. J.M. Kinzie is associate professor of psychiatry and AΩA chapter councilor, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, Oregon. A.L. Lee is assistant professor, Department of Family Medicine, and AΩA chapter councilor, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts; ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7956-4746. C. Lynch is associate vice president, College of Medicine obstetrics and gynecology, associate vice president, women's health and faculty development, associate dean, faculty development, professor, obstetrics and gynecology, and AΩA chapter councilor, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida; ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6478-2561. S. Pfeil is medical director, Clinical Skills Education and Assessment Center, professor, Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition, and AΩA chapter councilor, The Ohio State University College of Medicine and Wexner Medical Center, Columbus, Ohio. E. Schoenbaum is professor, Department of Epidemiology & Population Health, professor, Department of Medicine, Infectious Diseases, director, Medical Student Research, Office of Medical Education, and AΩA chapter councilor, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York City, New York; ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0878-284X.
Acad Med. 2020 May;95(5):670-673. doi: 10.1097/ACM.0000000000003088.
With a motto of "Be Worthy to Serve the Suffering," Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society (AΩA) supports the importance, inclusion, and development of a culturally and ethnically diverse medical profession with equitable access for all. The underrepresentation of minorities in medical schools and medicine continues to be a challenge for the medical profession, medical education, and AΩA. AΩA has worked, and continues to work, to ensure the development of diverse leaders, fostering within them the objectivity and equity to be inclusive servant leaders who understand and embrace diversity in all its forms.Inclusion of talented individuals from different backgrounds benefits patient care, population health, education, and scientific discovery. AΩA values an inclusive, diverse, fair, and equitable work and learning environment for all and supports the medical profession in its work to achieve a welcoming, inclusive environment in teaching, learning, caring for patients, and collaboration.The diversity of medical schools is changing and will continue to change. AΩA is committed to continuing to work with its members, medical school deans, and AΩA chapters to assure that AΩA elections are unbiased and based on the values of AΩA and the profession of medicine in service to patients and the profession.Progress toward diversity, inclusion, and equity is more than simply checking off a box or responding to criticism-it is about being and developing diverse excellent physicians. AΩA and all those in the medical profession must continue to guide medicine to be unbiased, open, accepting, inclusive, and culturally aware in order to "Be Worthy to Serve the Suffering."
以“值得为受苦者服务”为座右铭，阿尔法欧米茄阿尔法荣誉医学协会（AΩA）支持医学职业的文化和种族多样性的重要性、包容性和发展，为所有人提供公平的机会。少数民族在医学院和医学领域的代表性不足仍然是医学专业、医学教育和 AΩA 的挑战。AΩA 一直致力于并将继续努力确保多元化领导者的发展，培养他们的客观性和公平性，成为包容的服务型领导者，理解并接受各种形式的多样性。来自不同背景的有才华的人的包容有利于患者护理、人口健康、教育和科学发现。AΩA 重视所有员工的包容性、多样性、公平性和公正性的工作和学习环境，并支持医学专业致力于在教学、学习、照顾患者和合作方面营造一个受欢迎、包容的环境。医学院的多样性正在发生变化，并将继续发生变化。AΩA 致力于继续与其成员、医学院院长和 AΩA 分会合作，确保 AΩA 的选举不受偏见影响，并基于 AΩA 的价值观和医学专业服务于患者和专业的价值观。在多样性、包容性和公平性方面取得进展不仅仅是打勾或回应批评——而是要成为并培养多元化的优秀医生。AΩA 和医学领域的所有人员必须继续引导医学消除偏见、开放、接受、包容和具有文化意识，以“值得为受苦者服务”。
