Curriculum Pillar Team
Dr. Eli Miloslavsky, Dr. Candace Feldman, Dr. Gail Kerr, Dr. Valerie Stone, Ms. Sciaska Ulysse, and Mr. Tyler Green.
Goal
By increasing general awareness of these topics, the culture of rheumatology will change as current providers recognize the critical need for workforce enrichment, and the root causes of negative care outcomes for patients. This shift in awareness in our rheumatology workforce will lead to more explicit messaging regarding the importance of enrichment and make the field more welcoming to individuals who have disabilities, are first generation/low income college and medical students, or are from under-resourced communities.
Strategies to Achieve Goal
- Identify current landscape of patient stories/patient experience curricula
- Update existing curricula with recent evidence-based advances surrounding workforce enrichment
Departmental Health Equity in Medical Education Checklist (HEME)
The HEME initiative aims to foster an enriched culture within rheumatology by addressing medical education communication. Through trained coaches, the initiative ensures presentations reflect robust representation and discuss how differences in care delivery contribute to differences in outcomes across populations. Coaches collaborate with speakers to apply a more defined lens, ensuring materials include more appropriate information related to patient representation and avoid reinforcing stereotypes or outdated terminology. By raising HEME strives to make rheumatology more welcoming to individuals who have disabilities, are first generation/low income college and medical students, or are from under-resourced communities and ultimately improves medical education and patient care and outcomes.
- BWH-MGH Joint Grand Rounds
As part of the Brigham and Women’s Hospital/Mass General Hospital joint rheumatology grand rounds, we began implementation of HEME aiming to address long-standing biases in medical education. Supporting this effort, two trained HEME coaches (at least one rheumatologist) work collaboratively with physician presenters to ensure material is representative and resonates with a larger audience.
Asynchronous Learning
Literature Related to Rheumatology Disparities
