University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine

The organization Do No Harm also compiled "Verbatim excerpts from secondary application questions posted on ProspectiveDoctor.com." According to the report, the school asks, "Do you identify as being part of a marginalized group socioeconomically or in terms of access to quality education or healthcare? Please describe how this inequity has impacted you and your community."

As of February 2022, over 4,000 UCSF School of Medicine faculty and staff completed "DEI Champion Training."

The school's Office of Diversity and Outreach published its "Unconscious Bias Training" page and outline its definitions and strategies to help eliminate these biases from the school culture. Under "Institutional Strategies," all institutions should; "Develop concrete, objective indicators & outcomes for hiring, evaluation, and promotion to reduce standard stereotypes," and "Provide unconscious bias training workshops for all constituents."

On April 13, 2021, the OBGYN and RS Departments held an event titled "Explaining Racial Disparities in Health: The Limitations of Implicit Bias," that had the following learning objectives: "Discuss the limitations of implicit bias as an explanation for racial disparities in health," "Discuss how structural racism contributes to racial disparities in health," and "Discuss the relationship between implicit bias and structural racism."

On March 30, 2023, the school presented a workshop on microaggressions where leaders presented a "framework for recognizing microaggressions and share[d] intervention strategies that promote allyship."

On April 26, 2023, the school presented a workshop on "Proactive and Responsive Approaches to Racial Bias in Clinical Learning." The workshop identified "activities to proactively create welcoming learning environments, as well as provide[d] skills to identify, intervene and repair when racial bias arises."

The school, “Launched an advisory committee to assist and provide feedback to educators developing curriculum that mentions racism, race, and racial/ethnic health disparities.”

The school’s “Committee on Curriculum and Educational Policy passed a resolution to expand the Bridges Curriculum’s social justice pillar.”

The school “launched a three-year initiative to expand the social justice pillar within the Bridges Curriculum. This work is part of the School of Medicine's Differences Matter 2025 initiative.”

The school’s Differences Matter Education Advisory Committee will “assist and provide feedback in any form of curriculum that mentions racism, race and racial/ethnic health disparities.”

The school’s Bridges Curriculum and Health Equity Content materials “have included the addition of structural competency, a framework that prepares clinical trainees to act on systemic causes of health inequalities, into the Foundational Sciences.”

A newly redesigned anti-racist version of a Health and Society course was launched in March 2022. "Anti-racism experts redesigned the course in collaboration with leaders of the Anti-Oppression Curriculum Initiative and internal UCSF experts."

In 2022, the school's Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion issued an update on its "anti-racism/anti-oppression efforts throughout all elements of medicine and medical education." The Office "Introduced DEI topics in curriculum" and would "Revise curriculum through an anti-racism/anti-oppressive lens."

In 2022, the Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion developed "a new Accelerating Anti-Oppression Work in Medical Education Charter in response to calls from students to change the way racial equity is taught and incorporated into our curriculum." The Charter is a "comprehensive plan that will influence the entire ecosystem of medical education, including admissions, student experience, faculty and faculty development, curriculum, assessment (grading and honors), education continuous quality improvement, community partnerships, and communication." A link to the complete charter is provided.

On September 7, 2022, University California San Francisco published its "Accelerating Anti-Oppression Work at UCSF" which outlines its many objectives and initiatives for the School of Medicine. Objective 4.3 states, "Revise existing faculty development to incorporate anti-racism and anti-oppresssion [sic] constructs and design new modules to address anti-oppression competencies along with assessment strategies to demonstrate success."

In June of 2022, Watson Scholars, recipients of the Dean’s Diversity Fund, were announced. The fund was established in 2015 to "support the recruitment and retention of faculty who share the university’s commitment to diversity and service to underserved or vulnerable populations."

The ASH Minority Medical Student Award Program at UCSF School of Medicine "provides minority medical students with hematology research experience and mentorship in the lab of an ASH [American Society of Hematology] member."

The school has a “Health Equity in Focus Campaign,” which asks pledge signatories to “commit to advancing diversity, equity, and inclusion in healthcare…the above ideals and to advancing health equity…and commit to concrete action(s) over the next month.”

The school offers “Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Champion Training for School of Medicine faculty and staff. This free training includes education on implicit biases and microaggressions, coaching in skills related to addressing these issues, and training in how to apply thoughtful, active listening and empathy to support a more diverse, equitable, and inclusive environment.” The school aims “to train 3,000 faculty by Spring 2021!”

The school launched its “Differences Matter” initiative, which “is a multi-year, multi-faceted School of Medicine initiative designed to make UCSF the most diverse, equitable and inclusive academic medical system in the country.”

The school said, “The Committee on Curriculum and Educational Policy passed a new Equity in Learning and Assessment in the Medical School Learning Environment policy with the goal of promoting equity in assessment of student performance and mitigating the risk of discriminatory and racialized assessment practices. This policy builds on years of research by UCSF faculty and students and was developed in conjunction with members of the Student National Medical Association.”

The school offers General information & Resources on health equity, which include a lecture by Robin DiAngelo and a podcast with Brené Brown and Ibram X. Kendi on “How to Be an Antiracist.”

The school held an event called “Racism and Race: The Use of Race in Medicine and Implications for Health Equity Event Series,” which answers some of the following questions: “What is the history of race in the health sciences, and how does that narrative operate in clinical practice, health research, and medical education today?” ; “How does the current approach to considering race in medicine relate to and potentially contribute to ongoing societal narratives about racial differences and racial inequities?”

As part of its Health Equity in Focus initiative, the school offers “Resources for Health Care Providers,” which include “White Fragility” by Robin DiAngelo and “How to be an Antiracist'' by Ibram X. Kendi.

The Osher Mini Medical School for the Public offered a course on “Combatting Systemic Racism in Health Care.” The description reads, “Racism and white supremacy are fierce, ever present and challenging forces that are the fabric of the United States from slavery through emancipation, Jim Crow segregation and Civil Rights. They impact the thinking, behavior and actions of individuals and institutions, including professional education and health care. The pernicious nature of racial and ethnic inequities requires a long-term commitment to change through education, systems changes and individual action.”

The Department of Medical Education offers a “Health Equity and Racial Justice Pathway.” Objectives include critically assessing “intersectional social identities in order to engage in lifelong learning in DEI” and examining “the role of DEI within the broader health care system and develop strategies to reduce systemic bias through institutional change.”

The Department of Medical Education has a page on “Race-Based Caucusing.” It reads, “Race-based affinity group meetings are a space for UCSF residents and fellows to deepen anti-racist work and process the impact of racism on ourselves and our community. The group creates a space to talk about experiences of racism, privilege, and allyship.” The department has “RBC for People Who Identify as white” and “RBC for People Who Identify as People of Color” and “RBC for People Who Identify as Black/African American.”

"The University of California San Francisco (UCSF) is under federal civil rights investigation by the Department of Education’s (DOED) Office of Civil Rights (OCR). UCSF allegedly violated the Civil Rights Act of 1964 by having segregated 'Racial Affinity Caucusing Groups,'" according to Campus Reform. Campus Reform also reported, "According to the UCSF website, 'Race-based affinity group meetings are a space for UCSF residents and fellows to deepen anti-racist work and process the impact of racism.'"

On February 22, 2023, Tablet Magazine published an article entitled "Welcome to America’s Racialized Medical Schools" and reports on UCSF's many diversity, equity, and inclusion programs. According to the article, UCSF is "an institution devoted exclusively to the medical sciences, and one of the top recipients of federal grants from the National Institutes of Health." In May of 2022, "UCSF took the unprecedented step of creating a separate Task Force on Equity and Anti-Racism in Research, which proceeded to make dozens of recommendations." The article links to several of the DEI programs coming out of these recommendations including: "UCSF Anti-Racism Initiative," "Timeline of DEI and Anti-Racism Efforts," "Difference Matters" initiative, and "“Anti-Racism and Race Literacy: A Primer and Toolkit for Medical Educators."

The school's homepage features a man wearing a Black Lives Matter t-shirt.

The school has a Chairs and Directors Council on Diversity, which aims to deliver, “An accountability process for chairs of departments to ensure that diversity, equity and inclusion is a strategic priority for Chairs and Directors.”

The school’s Differences Matter initiative has four focus areas, which are: “Diversify the Academy of Medicine,” “Generate, Disseminate and Apply New Knowledge,” “Build Anti-racism/Anti-oppression Expertise within UCSF,” and “Optimize the Culture of Equity and Inclusion at UCSF.”

The school tweeted, "And a special shout out to #WhiteCoatsforBlackLives at @UCSFMedicine . Racism is a public health threat and we stand with you! #AllinForKidsCA"

The school tweeted, "Earlier we talked about racism and the root causes of inequity perpetuating traumatic stress for Black and Brown kids and families. #COVID19 has exacerbated those inequities, and increased risk for ACES (adverse childhood experiences). #AllinForKidsCA"

The school tweeted, "My message for this hour: Racial justice and the recognition of racism as a public health threat are essential to prevent & end childhood adversity/trauma. #AllinForKidsCA"

The school tweeted, "Weds: 1st of 4-part series on Racism and Race: The Use of Race in Medicine and Implications for Health Equity. Keynotes & discussion on use of race in med, incl. considerations related to evolving science of genetics & impact of racism on health outcomes."

The school posted on Facebook, "The personal narratives shared at the 2015 UCSF School of Medicine 'Race Matters' Leadership Retreat continue to reverberate with many attendees. Through collaboration and dialogue, UCSF leaders are addressing the complex challenge of racial disparities in health and healthcare. In this article (with video clips), 11 UCSF leaders share their reflections on the power of the retreat and how they are moving forward to effect change."

The school posted on Facebook, "Last week's School of Medicine retreat brought leaders and students together to talk about race and racism in health and healthcare in the US and at UCSF."

The school posted on Facebook, "Proud of our students and those across the country who joined and continue to advance White Coats for Black Lives."

The school posted on Facebook, "Congratulations to our students who started White Coats for Black Lives (WC4BL) and are being honored with a Hero Award. Whitecoats4blacklives.org is a coalition of underrepresented minority medical students and allies. The WC4BL movement has sparked important conversations and are improving medical curriculum by shedding more light on how racism disproportionately affects health outcomes within communities of color. WC4BL’s efforts influence the Healthcare system by inspiring their peers and health institutions to look at social injustice as a health issue and to provide guidance on how these institutions can better contribute to the health of underserved communities."

The school posted on Facebook, "Racially biased perceptions of pain lead to unequal treatment for black patients -- even children."

The school posted on Facebook, "From poverty to racism, trauma takes on many forms. Those who have experienced trauma are more vulnerable to injury and illness and more reluctant to seek health care. Our clinicians are developing interventions and education to help support patients experiencing trauma as well as their providers."

The school posted on Facebook, "Breaking the cycle of racism in family planning care."

The school posted on Facebook, "Tomorrow (Tuesday): White Coats for Black Lives at UCSF is holding a vigil to honor Tyre King, Terence Crutcher and Keith Lamont Scott. We are grateful to WC4BL for creating this space, which is open to all, and continue to support their work to eliminate racism and achieve health equity."

The school posted on Facebook, "How does the lived and social experience of race turn into racial differences in health — into higher levels of Type 2 diabetes or cardiovascular disease or higher rates of infant mortality?"

The school posted on Facebook, "UCSF students working to support White Coats for Black Lives (WC4BL) celebrated the 4th Anniversary of the 2014 Die-In on campus today. Students highlighted strategies to support an anti-racist health care education that elevates queer, disabled, formerly criminalized, and undocumented people of color in the communities and hospitals in which we work."

The school posted on Facebook, "Thanks to the Office of Diversity and Outreach for promoting a culture of equity and inclusion at UCSF!"

The school posted on Facebook, "Congratulations to our inaugural class of John A. Watson Scholars! Each year, nine junior faculty members will be named for their commitment to advancing diversity, inclusion and equity in academic medicine."

The school posted on Facebook, "In recognition of Diversity Month, we’re celebrating equity and inclusion at UCSF!"

During a TEK talk, a speaker discussed "how, despite years of attention to diversity, equity, and inclusion, America’s health care system has failed to make measurable progress in identifying, addressing, and eliminating disparities in health and health care."

The school posted on Facebook, "Meet the inaugural class of Dean’s Population Health and Health Equity Scholars! These awards are presented to junior faculty working in the areas of population health or health equity. The establishment of the Dean’s Population Health and Health Equity Scholars program will enhance the School of Medicine’s ongoing efforts to support research that can impact the health of underserved populations."

The school posted on Facebook, "Congratulations to the Chancellor Diversity Award winners for championing equity, inclusivity and diversity at UCSF and beyond."

The school posted on Facebook, "Tune into the latest episode of our medical education podcast, The Spark. In this episode, we feature initiatives in the School of Medicine focused on diversity, equity and inclusion – both in approaches to patient care and research, as well as in medical education via the Bridges Curriculum."

The school posted on Facebook, "The School of Medicine and its Differences Matter initiative were noted in the October issue of Oprah Magazine, in a piece describing national initiatives to advance diversity, equity and inclusion in health care and in medical education."

In November 2022, UCSF School of Medicine launched the Next Five Years of Differences Matter Plan for 2027. This initiative "will implement new areas of focus designed to target high impact areas that have the potential to accelerate the achievement of equity, belonging, and anti-oppression across the medical profession." These include: "Diversify Medicine," "Generate, Disseminate and Apply New Knowledge by critically analyzing and exploring the role of race, ethnicity, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation and oppression related to membership in diverse groups in medicine, science and health," "Build Anti-racism/Anti-oppression Expertise within UCSF," and "Optimize the Culture of Equity and Inclusion at UCSF."

The UCSF School of Medicine has a timeline of its DEI and Anti-Racism initiatives, including diversity funds and demands for a curricular redesign.

The ARCHES program was launched in March of 2022. It is a career development program for historically excluded research faculty that recognize that "diversity is critical to institutional success and scientific progress."