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A Virtual National Diversity Mentoring Initiative to Promote Inclusion in Emergency Medicine

INTRODUCTION: Trainees underrepresented in medicine (URiM) face additional challenges seeking community in predominantly white academic spaces, as they juggle the effects of institutional, interpersonal, and internalized racism while undergoing medical training. To offer support and a space to share...

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Autores principales: Carrillo, Tatiana, Rodriguez, Lorena Martinez, Landry, Adaira, Alvarez, Al’ai, Ceniza, Alyssa, Gay, Riane, Green, Andrea, Faiz, Jessica
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Department of Emergency Medicine, University of California, Irvine School of Medicine 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10393448/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37527394
http://dx.doi.org/10.5811/westjem.59666
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author Carrillo, Tatiana
Rodriguez, Lorena Martinez
Landry, Adaira
Alvarez, Al’ai
Ceniza, Alyssa
Gay, Riane
Green, Andrea
Faiz, Jessica
author_facet Carrillo, Tatiana
Rodriguez, Lorena Martinez
Landry, Adaira
Alvarez, Al’ai
Ceniza, Alyssa
Gay, Riane
Green, Andrea
Faiz, Jessica
author_sort Carrillo, Tatiana
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description INTRODUCTION: Trainees underrepresented in medicine (URiM) face additional challenges seeking community in predominantly white academic spaces, as they juggle the effects of institutional, interpersonal, and internalized racism while undergoing medical training. To offer support and a space to share these unique experiences, mentorship for URiM trainees is essential. However, URiM trainees have limited access to mentorship from URiM faculty. To address this gap, we developed a national virtual mentoring program that paired URiM trainees interested in emergency medicine (EM) with experienced mentors. METHODS: We describe the implementation of a virtual Diversity Mentoring Initiative (DMI) geared toward supporting URiM trainees interested in EM. The program development involved 1) partnering of national EM organizations to obtain funding; (2) identifying a comprehensive platform to facilitate participant communication, artificial intelligence-enabled matching, and ongoing data collection; 3) focusing on targeted recruitment of URiM trainees; and (4) fostering regular leadership meeting cadence to customize the platform and optimize the mentorship experience. CONCLUSION: We found that by using a virtual platform, the DMI enhanced the efficiency of mentor-mentee pairing, tailored matches based on participants’ interests and the bandwidth of mentors, and successfully established cross-institutional connections to support the mentorship needs of URiM trainees.
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spelling pubmed-103934482023-08-02 A Virtual National Diversity Mentoring Initiative to Promote Inclusion in Emergency Medicine Carrillo, Tatiana Rodriguez, Lorena Martinez Landry, Adaira Alvarez, Al’ai Ceniza, Alyssa Gay, Riane Green, Andrea Faiz, Jessica West J Emerg Med Health Equity INTRODUCTION: Trainees underrepresented in medicine (URiM) face additional challenges seeking community in predominantly white academic spaces, as they juggle the effects of institutional, interpersonal, and internalized racism while undergoing medical training. To offer support and a space to share these unique experiences, mentorship for URiM trainees is essential. However, URiM trainees have limited access to mentorship from URiM faculty. To address this gap, we developed a national virtual mentoring program that paired URiM trainees interested in emergency medicine (EM) with experienced mentors. METHODS: We describe the implementation of a virtual Diversity Mentoring Initiative (DMI) geared toward supporting URiM trainees interested in EM. The program development involved 1) partnering of national EM organizations to obtain funding; (2) identifying a comprehensive platform to facilitate participant communication, artificial intelligence-enabled matching, and ongoing data collection; 3) focusing on targeted recruitment of URiM trainees; and (4) fostering regular leadership meeting cadence to customize the platform and optimize the mentorship experience. CONCLUSION: We found that by using a virtual platform, the DMI enhanced the efficiency of mentor-mentee pairing, tailored matches based on participants’ interests and the bandwidth of mentors, and successfully established cross-institutional connections to support the mentorship needs of URiM trainees. Department of Emergency Medicine, University of California, Irvine School of Medicine 2023-07 2023-07-12 /pmc/articles/PMC10393448/ /pubmed/37527394 http://dx.doi.org/10.5811/westjem.59666 Text en © 2023 Carrillo et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article distributed in accordance with the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY 4.0) License. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)
spellingShingle Health Equity
Carrillo, Tatiana
Rodriguez, Lorena Martinez
Landry, Adaira
Alvarez, Al’ai
Ceniza, Alyssa
Gay, Riane
Green, Andrea
Faiz, Jessica
A Virtual National Diversity Mentoring Initiative to Promote Inclusion in Emergency Medicine
title A Virtual National Diversity Mentoring Initiative to Promote Inclusion in Emergency Medicine
title_full A Virtual National Diversity Mentoring Initiative to Promote Inclusion in Emergency Medicine
title_fullStr A Virtual National Diversity Mentoring Initiative to Promote Inclusion in Emergency Medicine
title_full_unstemmed A Virtual National Diversity Mentoring Initiative to Promote Inclusion in Emergency Medicine
title_short A Virtual National Diversity Mentoring Initiative to Promote Inclusion in Emergency Medicine
title_sort virtual national diversity mentoring initiative to promote inclusion in emergency medicine
topic Health Equity
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10393448/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37527394
http://dx.doi.org/10.5811/westjem.59666
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