- Mailing Address
-
1200 S. Franklin St.
Mount Pleasant, Michigan 48859 - Phone
- (989) 774-4000
- Email address
- cmed@cmich.edu
- School Information
- "The Central Michigan University (CMU) College of Medicine educates diverse students and trains culturally competent physicians to provide comprehensive health care and services to underserved populations in Michigan and beyond." "CMU College of Medicine focuses on recruiting students from Michigan who want to become doctors for Michigan. We provide medical education on two campuses located in Mount Pleasant and Saginaw, Michigan, and at other affiliate and regional campus locations...The College is accredited by the Liaison Committee on Medical Education . Our medical simulation centers are accredited by the Society for Simulation in Healthcare. The College is accredited with commendation as a provider of continuing medical education by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education." (Source: https://www.cmich.edu/academics/colleges/college-of-medicine/about-college-medicine)
Actions Taken
- Anti-Racism, Bias, and Diversity Training
-
-
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."
-
- Resources
-
-
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..."
-