Central Michigan University College of Medicine

The college's Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee advises "on the best approaches to recruit and retain and develop diversity among students, residents, faculty, and staff."

Students at the college are "required to attend diversity, equity and inclusion workshops organized by the Office of Medical Education." The workshops include "discussions of health disparities, disabilities, Native American health and LGBTQ issues in medicine."

The college's Faculty and Staff Diversity Advocate Program "raises awareness and provides training on drafting inclusive position descriptions and advertising, reducing bias in interviewing, planning an inclusive campus visit and promoting diversity in the selection of the final candidate."

The College of Medicine's general competencies "guide curriculum development" and include the following criteria (under "System-Based Practice"): "Recognize bias, social inequity, and systemic racism and their effects on health," and "Develop approaches to promote racial equity at the individual, institutional, and societal levels."

As part of the college's "Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in the College of Medicine Curriculum," the college has "implemented a published series of five Critical Consciousness in Medicine small group workshops that are intended to introduce faculty and students to issues of discrimination and inequity and their effects on health outcomes." Students are "required to attend diversity, equity and inclusion workshops organized by the Office of Medical Education."

The Diversity Health Symposium at the College of Medicine is a "signature spring event" where students "take on significant leadership in developing and implementing diversity programming, working hand in hand with faculty and staff in developing timely and relevant programs."

The Emergency Medicine Diversity Scholarship Program is a "unique opportunity for medical students from minority groups currently underrepresented in medicine" which "provides $1,500 for travel, housing and living expenses."

Students who receive the College of Medicine Mission Fund award "show significant evidence of an ability to help fulfill the College's vision of preparing diverse, culturally competent physicians to meet the needs of Michigan and beyond."

College of Medicine visiting students "who identify as members of a minority group currently underrepresented in medicine (URiM) may apply to our Diversity Scholarship program" and if selected will "receive a stipend to offset the cost of travel, housing and living expenses during the rotation."

The college published a list of diversity, equity, and inclusion resources which includes "Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment is Killing America’s Heartland" by Jonathan M. Metzl, M.D., and "Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black American from Colonial Times to Present" by Harriet A. Washington.

On November 9, 2022, CMU News announced that "S. Sethu K Reddy, M.D., CMU College of Medicine senior associate dean for research and president of the American Association of Clinical Endocrinology is an author of the new national guideline for the care and management of people with or at risk of diabetes." The 2022 guideline "addresses a variety of new topics related to the management of diabetes, including...social determinants of health..."

The college's Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion states that its mission is to "train culturally competent physicians who are prepared to provide care to underserved communities" and to "promote health equity."