Diversity Advisory Board Homepage

The mission of the Diversity Advisory Board is to guide and help facilitate the efforts of the Office of Multicultural Affairs to ("accomplish", "build and sustain", "establish and maintain","attain") diversity within the School of Medicine ("as it relates to the composition of the medical", "in terms of the medical") student body, curriculum, residency programs, faculty and post-doctoral recruitment, and research opportunities. The Diversity Advisory Board's role is to advise the ("administration","senior leadership") of our concerns ("as it relates to", "pertaining to") ("diversity issues and policies") and to identify viable resources which will assist the Office of Multicultural Affairs in achieving its mission.

The Office of Multicultural Affairs is committed to the promotion of diversity within healthcare. In pursuit of these goals, we are dedicated to:

Support the academic and professional success of students who are underrepresented in medicine, including those who have demonstrated a commitment to working with the underserved populations;
Serve the health care needs of unserved and underserved communities by promoting an academic and clinical training environment that is diverse, collaborative and supportive;
Enrich the academic and clinical training environment of the School of Medicine by actively promoting a diverse faculty and student body which in turn will better prepare medical students and residents to meet the needs of an increasingly diverse society;
Endores the attributes of diversity and promote training in cultural sensitivity among medical students, residents and faculty in caring for all patients irrespective of ethnicity, culture, gender, sexual orientation, religion or disability.