University of California, San Francisco, School of Medicine
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Initiatives
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Launched in July 2021, the UCSF Anti-Oppression Curriculum Initiative (AOCI) aims to reinforce and expand the diversity, equity, belonging, and anti-oppression work happening across campus, while accelerating our focus on anti-oppression and equity across our four-year curriculum.
The AOCI team is engaging in a collaborative, longitudinal process of reflection, evaluation, and evolution necessary to build an increasingly responsive, anti-oppression curriculum to support students in their learning, helping them prepare to partner with individuals seeking care and with communities to advance health equity.
Over the three-year duration of the first phase of the AOCI, internal and external expertise representing a range of perspectives were leveraged to review and begin to adapt the Bridges Curriculum using an anti-racist, anti-oppressive lens. With the help of faculty, students, staff, and community members, content and methods that reinforce oppressive beliefs, values, and approaches were identified and iteratively revised in partnership with educational leaders to incorporate anti-oppressive content and approaches, with the goal of integrating this lens across all four years of our curriculum.
This infographic was created to summarize the impact of Phase 1 of the AOCI, by highlighting the guiding principles, areas of focus, core efforts, and resources created during the first three years of the initiative.
What was the most impactful part of your entry?
Identifying the key metrics that represented the initiative’s work and accomplishments was the most impactful part of the infographic. The infographic was designed to summarize a three year-long multifaceted effort and make it comprehensible to the faculty sponsors, key partners across the university, and collaborators including faculty, students and staff. We were able to quantify the work and highlight the progress to make it possible for others not heavily involved in the work to recognize the value of the initiative.
What challenge did you overcome?
Distilling down three years of work with multiple workstreams and over 50 collaborators was a challenge. Instead of forcing ourselves to create a traditional infographic that relied solely on icons and metrics, our team pushed the boundaries and made sure that team members’ voices were incorporated in the graphic through written testimonials. The result is an infographic that represents both the progress made and the people-first culture of the AOCI that made these results possible.
Contact:
Lesley Snyder
lesley.snyder@ucsf.edu