Thank you Dr. Wilson, for informing us of all of these opportunities! ….
Announcements are below and attached:
UCSF today is launching a website to inform and update the campus community about the University’s efforts to educate, train and employ a diverse faculty, staff and student body. http://diversity.ucsf.edu/
Produced by the UCSF Public Affairs department, the website reflects the input and ideas of a cross-section of the campus community, including the Office of the Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost Eugene Washington, MD, the Chancellor’s Advisory Committee on Academic Diversity, the Chancellor’s Advisory Committee on Diversity, the Chancellor’s Advisory Committee on Disability Issues and the Chancellor’s Advisory Committee on the Status of Women.
In addition to covering diversity-related news and events, the website features:
Voices, a series of videos profiling diverse members of the campus community;
A resources section including reports about diversity and links to related websites, including research addressing health care disparities, and
A listing of individuals at UCSF who are recognized as “Champions of Diversity.”
Part of a larger communications plan on diversity, the website is designed to report progress made toward “nurturing diversity,” one of the seven strategic directions outlined in the UCSF Strategic Plan. It is also part of UCSF’s 10-point diversity initiative, which calls on the University to coordinate communications related to diversity. In addition, enhancing diversity is one of three areas of focus for UCSF’s accreditation process with the Western Association of Schools and Colleges.
Minority Faculty Voices on Diversity in Academic Medicine: Perspectives From One School.
Academic Medicine. 83(8):781-786, August 2008.
Mahoney, Megan R. MD; Wilson, Elisabeth MD, MPH; Odom, Kara L. MD, MPH; Flowers, Loma MD; Adler, Shelley R. PhD
Purpose: To examine the perceptions and experiences of ethnic minority faculty at University of California-San Francisco regarding racial and ethnic diversity in academic medicine, in light of a constitutional measure outlawing race- and gender-based affirmative action programs by public universities in California.
Methods: In 2005, underrepresented minority faculty in the School of Medicine at University of California-San Francisco were individually interviewed to explore three topics: participants’ experiences as minorities, perspectives on diversity and discrimination in academic medicine, and recommendations for improvement. Interviews were tape-recorded, transcribed verbatim, and subsequently coded using principles of qualitative, text-based analysis in a four-stage review process.
Results: Thirty-six minority faculty (15 assistant professors, 11 associate professors, and 10 full professors) participated, representing diversity across specialties, faculty rank, gender, and race/ethnicity. Seventeen were African American, 16 were Latino, and 3 were Asian. Twenty participants were women. Investigators identified four major themes: (1) choosing to participate in diversity-related activities, driven by personal commitment and institutional pressure, (2) the gap between intention and implementation of institutional efforts to increase diversity, (3) detecting and reacting to discrimination, and (4) a need for a multifaceted approach to mentorship, given few available minority mentors.
Conclusions: Minority faculty are an excellent resource for identifying strategies to improve diversity in academic medicine. Participants emphasized the strong association between effective mentorship and career satisfaction, and many delineated unique mentoring needs of minority faculty that persist throughout academic ranks. Findings have direct application to future institutional policies in recruitment and retention of underrepresented minority faculty.
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SAN FRANCISCO GENERAL HOSPITAL CANCER PATIENTS
TO PERFORM ORIGINAL THEATER PIECE
The ARACELI Theater Project presents a multilingual (English, Spanish, and Cantonese) theater event entitled, “Attitude of Gratitude: Touched by Cancer,” at two San Francisco locations beginning August 6th. This diverse community based ensemble performs an original script and production that gives voice to the complex personal, political and spiritual beliefs surrounding the cancer experience. Araceli Theater Project is patient-centered, and reaches many individuals who face tremendous challenges related to poverty and arising from their medical needs. The group serves to reduce the sense of isolation and alienation that often accompanies a cancer diagnosis. The creativity, expressiveness and humor of the participants, provides an insider’s glance at the emotional landscape of cancer and the various ways people cope with living on the edge of life and death. The project is a component of the nationally recognized CARE (Cancer Awareness, Resources, and Education) program of SFGH. The performance at SFGH is offered free of charge. Performance locations and dates are as follows:
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5:00 pm, Wednesday, August 6 | Free
San Francisco General Hospital
1001 Potrero Avenue (@ 22nd St.)
Carr Auditorium, Building C
7:30pm Friday, August 7
Intersection for the Arts
446 Valencia, bet. 15th & 16th Sts.
$15 donation requested
Call 415-206-5912 to reserve tickets
7:30pm Saturday, August 8
Intersection for the Arts
446 Valencia, bet. 15th & 16th Sts.
$15 donation requested
Call 415-206-5912 to reserve tickets
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Are you a professor or board member from an HSHPS member institution? Would you like to create a training program with HSHPS for summer 2009? Please read below how you can train graduate medical and public health students to better serve the Hispanic community!
http://www.hshps.org/
PURPOSE
Assist HSHPS to establish a training program for current students and/or recent graduates of medicine, public health, and biomedical sciences who are interested in improving the health of Hispanics, by participating in a nine to 12-week internship or six-month fellowship that focuses on a specific disease affecting the Hispanic community or research being done along the U.S.-Mexico border region.
GOAL
1. Provide the necessary tools needed to complete educational degrees and enhance the professional careers of current students and/or recent graduates of medicine, public health, and biomedical sciences
2. Expose current students and recent graduates of relevant health issues affecting the Hispanic community
3. Encourage current students and recent graduates to work with the Hispanic community in order to improve their health
Senate Bill 840:
The Promise and Politics of Single Payer Health Care Assemblywoman Loni
Hancock – Co-author of SB 840 Assemblyman Sandre Swanson – Co-author of
SB 840 Nancy Skinner – Assembly District 14 Nominee Sara Rogers –
Health Consultant to State Senator Sheila Kuehl (author of SB 840)
Come to a discussion on the politics of achieving universal healthcare in California, and the critical importance of SB 840. Ample time for audience participation, plus actions people can take to support SB 840, the California Universal Healthcare Act. Friday, August 15, 7:00
Registration begins at 6:30 390 27th St – Oakland Humanist Hall – Renewal Club and Single Payer Now. For more information contact Judy
Pope at 510-652-6130, Healthcare@wellstoneclub.org or
Don Bechler at Single Payer Now, 415-695-7891 www.singlepayernow.net
Hispanic Physicians Leadership Seminar
For anyone interested who meets the criteria this is a wonderful opportunity.
AMA-MAC accepting applications for Hispanic physician leadership seminar The AMA Minority Affairs Consortium (MAC) is pleased to invite Hispanic physicians to attend the Hispanic Physicians Political Leadership Seminar. Based on the popular AMPAC Campaign School, this two-day seminar will provide Hispanic physicians with
strategies and practical tools for effective political involvement
and leadership.
The Hispanic Physician Outreach Initiative (HPOI) <http://www.ama-assn.org/ama/pub/category/16800.html fund will support a select number of physicians to attend the seminar, which will be held Oct. 3-5 in Washington , D.C.
Information packets can be obtained by sending an e-mail http://us.mc506.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=mac@ama-assn.org
or calling (312) 464-5622. Applications are due Aug. 1.
Who: Northern California Psychiatric Society (NCSPS)
Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual Transgender (LGBT) Issues
committee
What: Bay Area physicians speak on Same Sex Marriage
When: Sunday August 3, 2008, 11am- 12:30pm
Where: 55 Robinhood Drive, San Francisco.This is the home of Rob Daroff, MD and Brian Nagai, MD (See Bottom of Article for further instructions)
California HealthCare Foundation Seeks Proposals to Expand Palliative Care in
The California HealthCare Foundation ( http://www.chcf.org/ ) has announced a new initiative, Spreading Palliative Care in Public Hospitals. The purpose of the initiative is twofold: to develop new, sustainable palliative care programs in Califor- nia’s public hospital system; and to support expansion and enhancement of existing public hospital palliative care programs. The goal of the $2.5 million project is to establish palliative care programs, with an emphasis on reaching diverse communities, in two-thirds of California public hospitals by 2011. Three types of grants will be awarded through the initiative: 1) Planning: Eight planning grants of up to $30,000 each (for up to six months) will be awarded to California public hospitals to explore the viability of developing a palliative care program focusing on underserved and ethnically diverse patients. (Dead- lines: August 1, 2008, for Round 1; and December 1, 2008, for Round II.) 2) Implementation: Public hospitals may apply for a two-year implementation grant on a rolling basis from July 2008 through June 2009 for amounts ranging from $100,000 to $250,000. (The total amount available is $1.25 million.) Applicant hospitals must provide in-kind contributions of at least 25 percent of the overall budget. Funding will be disseminated on a competitive but first-come basis until funds are depleted. 3) Expansion: Three one-year grants of up to $75,000 each will be awarded to public hospitals with existing palliative care programs. The focus of the expansion grants is to enable exist- ing public hospital palliative care programs to expand to new areas, with particular emphasis on engaging diverse communities served by the institution. Public hospitals may apply for the expansion grants on a rolling basis from July 2008 through June 2009. Applicant hospitals must provide in-kind contributions of at least 25 percent of the overall budget. Each type of grant is available through a separate Request for Proposals. Applicants must be a county-owned and -operated hospi- tal or a county-contracted hospital operated by the University of California at Davis, Irvine, or San Diego. For further information and to download any of the RFPs, visit the California HealthCare Foundation Web site. RFP Link: http://fconline.foundationcenter.org/pnd/15014282/chcforg
Are Hospitalists Killing Primary Care?
http://www.the-hospitalist.org/blogs/wachters_world/archive/2007/10/20/are-hospitalists-killing-primary-care.aspx
Few Minority Students Persistent Problem for California Med Schools
A report from the Greenlining Institute shows that racial and ethnic minorities continue to be underrepresented at University of California medical schools. An institute official said minorities account for about 20% of medical students but make up 40% of Californians. New America Media.
The double burden on safety net providers: placing health disparities in the context of the privatization of health care in the US.
Horton S.
University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA. HortonSarah@msn.com
The US Institute of Medicine’s (IOM) influential 2003 report has focused attention on disparities in treatment outcomes and health status for American minorities, zeroing in on the role of unconscious bias in the unequal clinical disposition of minority patients. In keeping with the IOM’s focus, current examinations of health disparities in the US tend to explore bias in clinical decision-making to the neglect of the political economic trends that buffet health care safety net sites and create the need for financial shortcuts. This paper recontextualizes the study of health disparities in the US by placing it against the backdrop of private sector trends emphasizing fiscal austerity and increased workforce productivity in health care. The social science literature on workers in human service bureaucracies, only recently applied to health care workers, suggests that higher demands for system “accountability” and worker “efficiency” may encourage providers to take shortcuts by treating individuals as mass categories. This ethnography of a Latino mental health clinic in the Northwestern USA shows that new private-sector measures of “productivity” take a toll on both the Latina clinicians whose invisible work subsidizes the system as well as on particular categories of patients–the uninsured and immigrants with serious psychosocial issues. While clinicians attempt to buffer the impacts of such reforms on patients, they also resort to means to increase their productivity such as firing repeated no-show patients and denial of care to the uninsured. This study is relevant for the health care of the poor in all health care systems considering restructuring along managerial principles to increase system ‘efficiencies.’
PMID: 16908090 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
Elisabeth Wilson, MD, MPH
PRIME-US, Program Director
Department of Family and Community Medicine
