Oakland University William Beaumont School of Medicine

The schools 2022-2025 Strategic Plan states that it would "[d]evelop and implement equitable strategies to recruit and retain underrepresented minority students."

On April 16, 2021, OUWB News reported that in 2020, the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee "recommended creation and implementation of the Diversity Champion program to extend and deepen the commitment to OUWB’s diverse learning environment." (The program is also referred to as "Diversity Champion Training.")

The schools 2022-2025 Strategic Plan states that it would "[i]ncrease DEI professional development training for all OUWB faculty and staff as well as extracurricular training for students."

OUWB outlines its core competencies, including "Professionalism," which describes one of its learning objectives as follows: "Demonstrate sensitivity and responsiveness to a diverse patient population, including but not limited to diversity in gender, age, culture, race, religion, disabilities, and sexual orientation."

The schools 2022-2025 Strategic Plan states that it would "[e]nhance student DEI training within all four years of the curriculum."

In response to Covid, the school created the Online Enrichment Program which was "designed to virtually expose high school students to careers in medicine, prepare them for high-level scientific engagement, and give them a greater understanding of the social determinants of health and health inequality that impact all individuals from various backgrounds." The most recent program took place in March of 2024.

The school's Diversity and Inclusion webpage provides "Anti-Racism and Diversity Resources" which include Ibram Kendi's "How To Be An Antiracist" and Robin J. DiAngelo's "White Fragility."

The Diversity Lecture Series at OUWB is "designed to highlight health equity in medicine and health care, as well as critical challenges of diversity and the way we practice in our community."

OUWB's Health Equity Symposium is an annual program "co-sponsored by the Oakland University School of Nursing and Beaumont Health System in honor of National Minority Health Month, which is supported by the United States Department of Health and Human Services." The program highlights the "health disparities that persist among racial and ethnic minority populations and the ways in which legislation, policies and programs can help advance health equity."

OUWB's Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Council "looks for ways to facilitate opportunities for successes of underrepresented populations, to identify strategies to enhance the OUWB environment with respect to inclusiveness with medical students, faculty and staff, advises administration on current issues and actions pertaining to DEI, and provides a collective, coherent voice and serves as a resource for all stakeholders on issues related to diversity."

On February 15, 2023, OUWB News reported that the school would hold a new "Equity-Mindedness Series" between February 16 and April 20. The series aimed at "creating an inclusive and racially just learning environment that benefits all students."

On October 16, 2019, OUBW News announced that the school's Diversity Lecture series would "feature a presentation from V. Thandi Sulé, Ph.D., Oakland University professor, and self-described 'critical race feminist hip-hop scholar'" on October 22, 2019, titled "Navigating Race and Equity in Health Care."

On April 9, 2024, the school's News site published an article titled "Culture 365, renowned thought leader deliver on OUWB's ‘amazing week’ of DEI." The article includes a quote from Interim Dean Stephan Sharf who stated the following: "'In health care specifically, the lack of diversity in the physician workforce negatively impacts health outcomes. DEI programs in medical schools have been targeted by recently proposed legislation, without recognition of how the programs can help improve health equity in our communities'.”

On June 2, 2020, then-Interim Dean Duane Mezwa, M.D. releases a message on racial injustice and stated the following: "The effects of racism begin early in life and perpetuate throughout our educational and health systems. It is a moral imperative that we rectify the injustices; we are all responsible for driving the change."