Louisiana State University Health New Orleans School of Medicine

The school's Office of Diversity and Community Engagement states that "Recruitment visits are made to identify, recruit, select, and track talented disadvantaged students who have an expressed interest in medicine."

The LSU Baton Rouge Psychiatry Residency Program states, "Our recruitment committee has always (and continues) to focus on the recruitment of underrepresented minorities and individuals from other underrepresented groups in residency."

The school's Justice, Equity, Inclusion and Diversity (JEDI) program "leverages current interprofessional M&Ms from the Internal Medicine and Pediatrics Residency Programs to launch quarterly Equity Rounds to examine clinical cases through the lenses of JEDI" and "focuses on anti-bias in healthcare training and its impact on care delivery."

The school's "Social Determinants of Health EPIC" program incorporates DEI (Diversity, Equity, Inclusion) training which has the goal of enhancing "patient-physician communication by teaching trainees to recognize Social Determinants of Health (SDoH) and understand when issues are impacting their patient’s care."

The LSU Baton Rouge Psychiatry Residency Program includes "Resident Training on Issues with Diversity and Inclusion."

The school's Internal Medicine Residency Program in Baton Rouge has a "Diversity, Health Equity and Diversity Curriculum workgroup" which "integrates topics key to understanding issues related to diversity, health care disparities and social determinants of health (SDoH) into its existing didactic structure."

The LSU Baton Rouge Psychiatry Residency Program includes: "Structured didactic content for all residents on raising awareness of racism and white privilege (through readings, discussions, assignments), "National Anti Racism in Medicine Curriculum for all residents," and "Diversity M&M quarterly Grand rounds."

The school's "Visiting Diversity Clerkship in Pediatrics Scholarship Program" is for students who "self-identify as an under-represented minority (URM) and display genuine interest in exploring issues of social determinants of health, population medicine, access to care, and social justice."

The Diverse Paths into Health Professions program at LSUSOM is "based on needs identified and barriers existing in Louisiana that could ultimately affect the competitiveness of minority and disadvantaged students' ability to enter and graduate from health profession schools."

The Black Men in White Coats Program at LSUSOM was "created by the Office of Diversity & Community Engagement in partnership with an all-male high school where male medical school students mentor underrepresented and underprivileged male students interested in healthcare careers at their school site."

The LSUSOM's Office of Diversity and Community Engagement was made possible in part due to the "establishment of scholarship funded for minority students" and "continues to offer recruitment and retention services to minority and disadvantaged students in Louisiana." Additionally, the office has "attracted over $5 million [in] federal grants and awards."

In February of 2020, the school's news reported, "Long before the Institute of Medicine’s groundbreaking report, Unequal Treatment: Confronting Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health Care, LSU School of Medicine physicians and researchers recognized that health and disease varied by income, race, and ethnicity." Additionally the article states, "Today, schoolwide efforts to incorporate health equity run through every pillar of the long-range plan, reaching into the administrative, clinical, research, and education fronts."

The school's Office of Diversity and Community Engagement states that "Counseling, psychosocial, and academic support are offered to provide a sustaining environment for the retention of underrepresented and disadvantaged medical students."

The school's "Institutional Diversity Policy" states, "The contributions of individuals with diverse backgrounds and perspectives enriches the educational experience for all learners, enables us to better address health care inequities, increases cultural competency in clinical care, improves service to our community, and expands the scope of our scholarship."

The Department of Physiology provides resources on "racism and how to fight it" and includes the book "White Fragility" by Robin DiAngelo.

As part of its "Fight Against Racism" statement, the Department of Physiology is "committed to self-education, reflection, and action to eliminate barriers and disparities in academic access, advancement, and promotion of underrepresented students, faculty, and staff in our department and institution."