Outcomes From a Novel Graduate Medical Education Leadership Program in Advancing Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Academic medicine needs more diverse leadership from racial/ethnic minorities, women, people with disabilities, and LGBTQIA+ physicians. Longitudinal structural support programs that bring together underrepresented in medicine (UiM) and non-UiM trainees are one approach to build leadership and scholarship capacity in diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI).

Objective

To describe the creation, satisfaction with, and feasibility of a Leadership Education in Advancing Diversity (LEAD) Program and evaluate scholars' changes in self-efficacy, intended and actual behavior change, and outputs in leadership and DEI scholarship.

Methods

In 2017, we created the LEAD Program, a 10-month longitudinal, single institution program that provides residents and fellows ("scho

SUBMITTER: Powell C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8672828 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature