Diversity & Inclusion

Download past meeting presentations covering topics related to diversity, inclusion, and equity.

Academic Internal Medicine Week 2019

• AAIM Women in Medicine Leadership Development Forum: Reframing Our Current Reality
  • Communicate Your Value—You Deserve a Seat at the Table!
  • Jump-Start Your Personal Transformation
  • Plenary Session I: Graceful Self-Promotion
  • Workshop 2. Who’s Got Your Back

• AAIM Signature Plenary: Issues in LGBT Health

• Workshop 104: Implementing Holistic Review in Intern Selection: A Mission-Driven Approach to Enhancing Diversity in GME
• Workshop 106: A Systems Approach to Identifying and Managing Microaggressions and Implicit Bias in the Clinical Setting
• Workshop 107: Don’t Touch Me, You #@*#!” Using Forum Theatre to Respond to Patient Discriminatory Bias 
• Workshop 108: International Medical Graduates and Wellbeing: One Size Does Not Fit All
• Workshop 206: Developing a Health Equity and Advocacy Curriculum/Track for GME Trainees
• Workshop 304: Mentoring and Sponsoring in the #HeForShe #MeToo Era
• Workshop 314: Lessons from the Race and Culture Project: Improving Case-Based Curricula to Better Address Structural Inequality
• Workshop 403: How to Score in Recruitment: Strategies to Eliminate Bias and Interviewer Variability in Your Rank List
• Workshop 404: Welcome Aboard! Creating Orientation Curricula to Address Gaps in Skills, Knowledge and Experience Among Incoming IMG Interns: Two Programs’ Perspectives
• Workshop 407: Gender Biases in Leadership: Facilitating Conversations with Trainees
• Workshop 410: The Fairer Sex or the Mightier Internist? Strategies for Individuals and Institutions to Improve the Experience of Women in Academic Internal Medicine
• Workshop 502: Re-Envisioning the Business Case for Diversity and Inclusion through Metrics and Measurements 
• Workshop 503: Recruiting IMG Applicants: Inspiration, Challenges, and Controversies
• Workshop 506: Teaching Social Determinants of Health through Urban Health Tracks Embedded in Internal Medicine Residency
• Workshop 508: Implicit Bias Training Implementing Change to Impact Workplace Experiences
• Workshop 511: Sponsored IMGs and Education Diplomacy: Moving from Apprehension to Understanding and Making Informed Choices for Your Program
• Workshop 607: Social Determinants of Health: Residency Curriculum Implementation

2018 APDIM Fall Meeting 

• Plenary Session I: #MeToo: Helping Our Residents Navigate Power Differentials, Sexism, Harassment, and Gender Inequity in Academic Medicine
• Samuel Is Smart and Hannah Is Helpful: Mitigating Bias in Written Evaluations and Letters of Recommendation
• To Health Disparities and Beyond: An Educational Framework for Identifying and Mitigating Implicit Bias in Ambulatory Care
• "I Am the Doctor": Helping Our Female Residents Address Gender Bias 

Academic Internal Medicine Week 2018

• Our Responsibility: Courageous Conversations about Race, Equity and Inclusion
• Creating an Implicit Bias Curriculum for Graduate Medical Education: Integrating One Program’s Experience
• Walking the Walk: Using Simulation to Teach Health Equity
• PA Plenary Session V: Increasing Diversity: Recruiting to Make a Difference

2017 AAIM Skills & Leadership Conference 

• Plenary II. Improving Resident Diversity to Meet Learning Environment and Patient Care Needs
• An Educational Curriculum in Cultural Humility: A Framework for Actionable Goals and Objectives
• More Than a Language Barrier: Teaching Trainees to Provide High-Quality Care to Individuals with Limited English Proficiency
• It’s Just a Drunk: Addressing Implicit Bias and Disparities in Care Associated with Substance Abuse in the Internal Medicine Clerkship
• Precourse, Women in Medicine: Breakout Session 2: We Need to Talk: Understanding Your Legal Position as a Woman Faculty or Staff Member

Academic Internal Medicine Week 2017

• APDIM/CDIM Joint Plenary, Unconscious Bias
• APDIM Plenary Session II, How Do We Do That? Creating a Diverse and Inclusive Environment Presentation1 | Presentation2
• Diversity and Inclusion: The Roadmap to Achieving Excellence
• The Experience of Women Residents in Internal Medicine

APM Winter Meeting 2017

• Plenary Session IV, Not Just for Do-Gooders: Applying the Hippocratic Oath to Diversity and Unconscious Bias —Molly Carnes, MD

About the Award

The AAIM Diversity Award was created to promote ethnic, racial, and gender diversity in departments of internal medicine. The award is presented to an individual who has effectively improved diversity within medical schools or who has worked to ensure patients of all races and ethnicities receive the highest quality of care. The award is presented during Academic Internal Medicine Week.

Past Recipients 

2019: Rachel B. Levine, MD, MPH

2018:  Lisa Barkley, MD, FAAFP, FSAHM, FACSM

2017: Joseph Betancourt, MD, MPH

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