- March 15, 2024
Announcing the New Residents in the Internal Medicine Primary Care Residency Program!
- March 12, 2024
Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion Update (March 2024)
- February 27, 2024
Dinner Introduces Future Residents to Yale School of Medicine and Yale New Haven Hospital
- February 13, 2024
Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion Update (February 2024)
- January 30, 2024
Fostering Equity and Inclusion in Infectious Diseases at Yale
- January 09, 2024
Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion Update (January 2024)
- December 12, 2023
Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion Update (December 2023)
- November 29, 2023
Huot Receives DEI Award from Connecticut ACP
- November 16, 2023
Deborah Dyett Desir, MD '80, Elected President of American College of Rheumatology
- November 14, 2023
Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion Update (November 2023)
- November 13, 2023
Voices of DEI: Nii Addy, PhD
- November 02, 2023
Dr. Jorge Moreno Honored with Emerging Trailblazer Award by Latino Alumni Association of Columbia University
Welcome from the Vice Chair for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
Thank you for visiting the Yale Department of Internal Medicine Diversity, Equity and Inclusion website. Whether you're a medical student, a Yale resident, fellow, faculty, or staff member, you'll find that the Yale medical community is diverse and offers an open, welcoming and thriving learning environment for everyone.
In 2016, Dr. Inginia Genao was appointed as associate chair for Diversity, Equity & Inclusion for the Department of Internal Medicine. Through this role, she partnered with department leadership and faculty to spread a powerful message of inclusivity.
Following her departure, I joined Yale in July of 2023 to become the Vice Chair for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion and I look forward to carrying on this tradition and building on the work she started.
We are addressing recruitment through a variety of initiatives. The department analyzed the ranks of professor and assistant professor with the goal of bringing the diversity and gender breakdown more in line with the population of the United States and the city of New Haven.
We defined our culture and created a mission statement. Programs to train faculty were instituted to improve leadership skills. Team dynamics were looked at to improve cohesiveness. Vice chairs, associate chairs, section chiefs, and program directors were empowered to become agents of change. Resources across Yale School of Medicine and Yale New Haven Health were consulted.
The Diversity Committee was established and has several ongoing efforts and initiatives to educate, recruit, and retain talent such as visiting historically black colleges and universities across the country; attending national conferences; hosting students as part of the Yale Visiting Student Scholarship Program (VSSP) to Enhance Healthcare Workforce Diversity; instituting communications and public relations efforts; educating house staff and faculty on topics related to diversity, equity, and inclusion; and connecting and establishing collaboration within the department. In the future, they will connect and engage with New Haven public schools and the New Haven community.
The work, which has become a cornerstone of the department, is making a difference. Over the past four years, 55% of faculty appointed or promoted to the rank of professor in our department were women and/or members of minority groups underrepresented in medicine (URiM).
We know that diversity and inclusion are beneficial. These initiatives bring a richness of ideas, backgrounds, and perspectives to create an improved learning environment. In medicine especially, lack of diversity is thought to exacerbate racial and ethnic health care disparities, which we work daily to dispel.
Enjoy exploring our website!