Element 3.3

Diversity/Pipeline Programs and Partnerships

A medical school has effective policies and practices in place, and engages in ongoing, systematic, and focused recruitment and retention activities, to achieve mission-appropriate diversity outcomes among its students, faculty, senior administrative staff, and other relevant members of its academic community. These activities include the use of programs and/or partnerships aimed at achieving diversity among qualified applicants for medical school admission and the evaluation of program and partnership outcomes.

Element 6.6

Service-Learning/Community Service

The faculty of a medical school ensure that the medical education program provides sufficient opportunities for, encourages, and supports medical student participation in service-learning and/or community service activities.

Element 7.6

Cultural Competence and Health Care Disparities

The faculty of a medical school ensure that the medical curriculum provides opportunities for medical students to learn to recognize and appropriately address gender and cultural biases in themselves, in others, and in the health care delivery process. The medical curriculum includes instruction regarding the following:

  • The manner in which people of diverse cultures and belief systems perceive health and illness and respond to various symptoms, diseases, and treatments
  • The basic principles of culturally competent health care
  • Recognition of the impact of disparities in health care on medically underserved populations and potential solutions to eliminate health care disparities
  • The knowledge, skills, and core professional attributes (e.g., altruism, accountability) needed to provide effective care in a multidimensional and diverse society