M.A. Schuster is founding dean and chief executive officer, and professor, Kaiser Permanente Bernard J. Tyson School of Medicine, Pasadena, California.
W.D. Conwell is associate dean, Equity, Inclusion, and Diversity, and assistant professor, Department of Clinical Science, Kaiser Permanente Bernard J. Tyson School of Medicine, Pasadena, California.
Acad Med. 2020 Dec;95(12S Addressing Harmful Bias and Eliminating Discrimination in Health Professions Learning Environments):S66-S70. doi: 10.1097/ACM.0000000000003695.
In July 2020, the Kaiser Permanente Bernard J. Tyson School of Medicine opened in Pasadena, California, with an inaugural class of 50 students. The school endeavors to address systemic barriers that have contributed to health care and educational disparities in the United States. To realize its vision for change, equity, inclusion, and diversity (EID) have been woven throughout the school. Board members were chosen in part based on their commitment to the core values of EID. The board developed mission, vision, and values statements that explicitly avow a commitment to EID and recruited a dean (and the dean recruited leaders) who espoused and evinced these values. Leaders, faculty, and staff received training to foster an inclusive environment and ensure accountability. The school developed a curriculum that has been thoroughly evaluated for its representative and inclusive content by a team drawn from all departments. The diverse first class, selected through a holistic admissions approach, has access to student support systems that emphasize an appreciation of the distinct experiences and context of each student. The school plans a rigorous evaluation program to assess its performance in EID. Although the school may well fall short of achieving all of its EID objectives, by learning from its experiences and from evidence of others in academic medicine, the school recognizes its opportunity to continue to come closer to achieving its goals and to help shape and contribute to the national and international discourse on EID.
2020 年 7 月，凯撒永久医疗集团伯纳德·J·泰森医学院在加利福尼亚州帕萨迪纳市成立，首批招收了 50 名学生。该学院致力于解决导致美国医疗保健和教育领域存在差异的系统性障碍。为了实现其变革、公平、包容和多元化的愿景，学校将公平、包容和多元化贯穿始终。董事会成员的选择部分基于他们对公平、包容和多元化核心价值观的承诺。董事会制定了使命、愿景和价值观声明，明确承诺公平、包容和多元化，并聘请了一位支持并表现出这些价值观的院长（院长再聘请领导团队）。领导团队、教师和员工接受了培训，以营造包容的环境并确保问责制。学院制定了课程，由来自各个部门的团队对其代表性和包容性内容进行了全面评估。多元化的首届学生通过全面招生方法被录取，他们可以获得学生支持系统，强调对每个学生独特经历和背景的理解。学校计划实施严格的评估计划，以评估其在公平、包容和多元化方面的表现。尽管该学院可能无法完全实现其公平、包容和多元化目标，但通过从自身经验和学术医学领域其他机构的经验中学习，该学院认识到其有机会继续努力实现目标，并为公平、包容和多元化的国家和国际对话做出贡献。
