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Feature: In Pursuit of Equity

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Perspectives: Developing Minority Affairs/Diversity Offices

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AAMC Diversity Policy and Programs

With the persistent and growing problem of disparities in health care and all the challenges of recruiting and retaining minority faculty to academic medicine, the AAMC's Division of Diversity Policy and Programs, formerly the Division of Community and Minority Programs, adopted a strategic plan to set a course for how it will promote diversity in academic medicine over the next five years. In addition to the three primary strategic initiatives in the table set forth below, the division collects resources for faculty regarding issues of diversity and equity:

**AAMC's Division of Diversity **Policy** and Programs**: Strategic Initiatives and **Resources**
Strategic Initiatives regarding Diversity	Resources for Faculty
Advancing diversity in the medical education and physician workforce pipeline.	Facts and Figures, XII (AAMC, 2002): Charts and tables related to the distribution of medical school faculty by race and ethnicity are included in the report on pages 63-70 and pages 120-5 available for download in Portable Document Format (PDF).
Making the case for diversity.	Meetings: Minority Faculty Career Development Seminar for Junior Minority Faculty will take place on September 17-19, 2005, at the Georgetown University Conference Center in Washington, D.C.
Supporting the AAMC's Group on Student Affairs' Minority Affairs Section (GSA-MAS) as a strategic resource for academic medicine.	Recommended Reading: The division's collection of resources related to the issues of diversity and equity.

To achieve its mission of advancing diversity in academic medicine, the division is engaged in programs and projects intended to increase racial and ethnic diversity among medical students, residents, faculty, researchers, and health-care policy makers and managers; conduct research to develop a solid evidentiary base to demonstrate the compelling need for diversity; and provide effective and efficient staff support to this group to help medical school Minority Affairs Section (MAS) representatives within their academic institutions and nationally.

For details about initiatives, contact: Lily May Johnson, lmjohnston@aamc.org; Laura Castillo-Page, lcastillopage@aamc.org