Diversity & Equity
Mission Statement: 
- We value the unique qualities, strengths, and contributions of our residents, faculty, and staff of all ages, races, national origins, ethnicities, religions, sexes, gender identities, cultures, and physical abilities. Harnessing the collective talent of our MacNeal Graduate Medical Education (GME) community is key to achieving excellence in our training programs.
- Our committee was founded to address longstanding barriers such as institutional racism, implicit bias, and healthcare disparities that affect our nation, and more specifically, our community. We value inclusivity and are committed to fostering a sense of belonging within the MacNeal institution.
- We have now established a GME-level DEI committee that includes residents, faculty, program coordinators, program leadership, and our DIO.
Our current and former residents represent countries from across the globe, including the USA, India, Pakistan, Germany, Honduras, Mexico, Ecuador, El Salvador, Venezuela, Costa Rica, Canada, the Bahamas, China, Peru, Bolivia, Paraguay, Brazil, Guatemala, Nepal, Jordan, Russia, Ghana, Ethiopia, and many more!
We aim to:
- Recruit and retain diverse residents and faculty who reflect the demographics of our community & the patient population that we serve as well as increase the number of underrepresented minorities in medicine
- Educate our residents and faculty through curriculum development and other educational opportunities
- Establish collaborative relationships with our community through outreach initiatives
- Provide inclusive patient care and improve health equity in our community
The above is in alignment with the five core values of Trinity Health:
Internal Medicine Curriculum
Our faculty and residents alike recognize that a true education in medicine cannot exist without an understanding of the social determinants of health and implicit bias. Additionally, education cannot happen in a singular lecture or module. Our approach is, therefore, to not merely provide lectures on equity and diversity, but to rethink how we educate residents longitudinally, in all the spaces where learning occurs.
Below are some examples of what that diverse educational experience at Loyola MacNeal I like:
Immersive Clinical Experiences
- Diverse inpatient experiences that include academic hospital setting, community hospital to care for uninsured and under-insured patients regardless of patient ability to pay. Multilingual experience with on-site interpreters. We offer Community Medicine elective and street medicine experiences for PGY1s and interested PGY2, PGY3 residents.
Health Equity Didactics
- Internal Medicine Noon Conference:
- Monthly lecture open to all house staff – topics include:
- Transgender medicine
- Cultural competence
- Bioethics- Ethics Series- Safe Discharge
- Religion and medicine
- Anti-racism and white fragility-Implicit Bis
- Health Disparities Series, Grand Rounds: Community Health Needs Assessment Update
- Microaggressions workshop
- Monthly lecture open to all house staff – topics include:
- Academic Half-Day:
- Part of regularly scheduled "Wednesday School", mandatory for all house staff
- Social determinants of health workshop
- Part of regularly scheduled "Wednesday School", mandatory for all house staff