Inclusive Excellence in Medicine Cohort Training Program (IEM) - Eastern Virginia Medical School (EVMS), Norfolk, Hampton Roads

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The Inclusive Excellence in Medicine Cohort Training Program enhances learner knowledge of diversity, equity and inclusion, including bias, microaggression, inequity, social determinants of health and systemic effects of racism.

The goal is to guide personal reflection and heighten personal awareness and accountability necessary as a change champion. More than 300 people completed the IEM Program.

Program expectations

Learners wil attend, actively participate, and complete assignments in all seven cohort courses.

Each course is 90 minutes in length. (in-person and virtual sessions)

Learners should commit to attending all sessions, actively participate in class discussions and activities, and complete transfer of learning assignments.

Once learners have completed all seven courses and assignments, they will receive a certificate of completion.

Learning objectives

Learners will better understand their role in ethical, social, and working responsibilities in eliminating health inequities.

Learners will enhance DEI knowledge and skills with factors associated with social determinants.

Learners will use reflection, regain a renewed commitment to health equity, and actively implement diversity and inclusion strategies with awareness.

Cohort modules

Approximately 25 learners will participate in the in-person session and 25 in the virtual session on a first-come first served basis. The training modules will focus on the following topics:

Race, Ethnicity and Culture: Key Terminology and Language

Cultivating Courageous Conversations: “Care-frontation- How do I say what I mean, mean what I say?”

How to be an Anti-Racist: Key Lessons, Goals and Actions

Addressing Microaggressions: Disarming Individual and Systemic Bias

Advancing Allyship, Inclusion and creating safe spaces

Creating a climate of inclusivity: Embracing Authenticity and Uniqueness within Diversity

Addressing Healthcare Inequities and social determinants of health: Moving from Inequity to Equity

The offices of Diversity and Inclusion and Graduate Medical Education will co-facilitate the cohort. Your leaders are: Mekbib L. Gemeda, Diane Holland, MPA, MHRM, and LaConda Fanning, Psy.D, RN, LPC, LSATP, ACS.