Loyola University Medical Center

Gottlieb Memorial Hospital

MacNeal Hospital

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Our Commitment to Diversity & Equity

Mission Statement

At Loyola Medicine, our goal is to mirror the population that we serve through increased awareness, representation, and education on diversity and equity. By enhancing a culture of ethnic, racial, LGBTQIA, religious and socioeconomic diversity, we strive to accept and respect all facets of an individual. In doing so, we provide for an environment where physicians can thrive and we can provide excellent patient care.

Here are some actions we are taking to fulfill our mission:

  • Continuously and actively reflect on our culture so as to create safe spaces for our patients, our learners and our faculty
  • Increase the number of residency applicants, faculty and house staff from under-represented minority populations
  • Design and utilize metrics to identify short-term and long-term goals of improving diversity in our program
  • Provide robust and longitudinal educational experiences to educate house staff and faculty about social determinants of health, anti-racism and cultural competence


 

For additional information on Health Equity Track

 

Curriculum

Our Philosophy

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 looks like:

Immersive Clinical Experiences

Diverse inpatient experiences that includes academic hospital setting, community hospital and Veteran's Affairs hospital Outpatient experiences at Access to Care Clinic provide care for uninsured and under-insured patients regardless of patient abiity to pay multi-lingual experience with on-site interpreters and social work Health Equity elective 2 week elective for interested PGY2, PGY3 residents rotation sides include: addiction medicine, bioethics, trans-health clinic, sickle cell clinic Street Medicine : Volunteer opportunity for residents to support unhoused populations locally

Health Equity Didactics

  • Loyola Morning Report: Social Determinants of Health and Patient Safety
    • Every other Friday open to all house staff
  • Internal Medicine Noon Conference: Cultural Competence Series
    • Monthly lecture open to all house staff – topics include:
      • Transgender medicine
      • Cultural competence
      • Bioethics
      • Religion and medicine
      • Anti-racism and white fragility
  • Academic Half-Day:
    • Part of regularly scheduled "Friday School", mandatory for all house staff
      • Implicit bias training for all interns
      • Microaggressions workshop
      • Social determinants of health workshop

Diversity Council

  • Monthly meeting for all interested residents
  • Space to discuss topics related to health equity and social justice
  • Ongoing efforts to improve culture and educational experiences on campus