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The school offers Anti-Racism Resources, including a video of Robin DiAngelo discussing “White Fragility” and Ibram X. Kendi’s “How To Be An Antiracist.”
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The Department of Psychiatry’s Anti-Racism Task Force was “designed to address racism in the same vein as the response to the COVID-19 pandemic.”
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The Department of Psychiatry’s Anti-Racism Task Force’s Education Subcommittee will “make recommendations for a departmental grand rounds series on anti-racism. Each session in the series would be followed by group discussions and some type of call to action.”
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The school held a “GIM Development Retreat on Anti-Racism, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI).”
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The Yale School of Medicine’s Child Study Center held an event titled, “The Psychopathic Problem of the White Mind,” as “part of Grand Rounds, an ongoing program in which clinicians and others in the field lecture students and faculty,” Bari Weiss reports. One of the learning objectives of the event was to “understand how white people are psychologically dependent on black rage.”
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In February of 2022, the Yale School of Medicine announced on Facebook that, with the support of "the Minority Organization for Retention and Expansion (MORE); Diversity, Inclusion, Community Engagement, and Equity (DICE); YNHHS Office of Diversity & Inclusion; YNHH Medical Staff Fund, and the Graduate Medical Education Office," the school will host a "a virtual recruitment dinner for underrepresented in medicine (URiM) residency applicants."
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In February of 2022, the school highlighted on Facebook a talk given within the Section of Rheumatology, Allergy and Immunology in the Department of Internal Medicine. The talk's topic was "Enhancing Diversity and Reducing Implicit Bias in Rheumatology."
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In November of 2021, the school highlighted on its Facebook page its Yale West Campus Showcase event targeted for middle school and high school students. This event "was focused on the theme 'Belonging in Science,' which was inspired by initiatives to increase diversity and inclusion in STEM fields."
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In October of 2021, the school took to Facebook to highlight that, “the Food and Drug Administration’s Office of Minority Health and Health Equity (OMHHE) has awarded a $3 million contract to Yale School of Medicine (YSM) to promote clinical trial education, awareness, and access for underrepresented minorities. In April of 2018, the Yale Center for Clinical Investigation and the Office of Minority Health and Health Equity had developed plans which “include collaborations to cultivate and advance the Yale Cultural Ambassadors Program and the engagement of community partners to increase participation of diverse and historically underrepresented or underserved populations in clinical research.”
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In September of 2021, Yale School of Medicine highlighted on Facebook a new paper which was written in the hopes that it “convinces physicians and other providers to obtain the training in cultural competency necessary to take best care of all patients with anxiety and depression, especially those from racial and ethnic minoritized populations who see this as vital to their care.”
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In September of 2021, the school highlighted the creation of the Yale Black Postdoctoral Association on Facebook.
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The school announced on Facebook that in April of 2021, “Yale School of Medicine’s (YSM) Cushing/Whitney Medical Library (CWML) launched a new webpage that aggregates the library’s expanding diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging (DEIB) resources.”
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In May of 2021, the school highlighted its Program to Advance Training in Health and Sciences which is geared to help students from “underrepresented backgrounds.”
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The school hosted an event titled, "The Uses of Anger." The event pairs Audre Lorde’s “The Uses of Anger,” with "the prologue to Carol Anderson’s recent book, White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide. Anderson’s work takes an long view of white supremacist policymaking since the Civil War, rooting the denial of Black citizenship in a long-entrenched white rage."
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The school "organized and sponsored a diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) symposium in Puerto Rico."
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The school's Child Study Center has a "DEIB Action Group," whose "efforts are focused on helping to develop innovative ways to interrupt the norms within center policies, practices, and culture with the intent to increase diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging."
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Women’s Health Research at Yale's "Council of community-based advisors recently spoke" with the medical school’s Chief Diversity Officer and Deputy Dean for Diversity and Inclusion "about the Yale School of Medicine’s plan to advance diversity, equity, inclusion, and a sense of belonging (DEIB). The Council’s own DEIB Committee was eager to learn about the school’s plan as WHRY initiates listening sessions on DEIB with leaders in women’s health, health care and equity from inside academia and across the region."
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The 2022 Morris Dillard lecture is called "Racial Science and Slavery in U.S. Medical Schools: A Roundtable Discussion."
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The 2022 Selma & Karl Folkers Lecture was "Challenging the Past and Charting a New Future: Legacies of Racism in Science and Medicine."