Justice 股本 多元化和包容性
UCLA 泌尿外科: Mission Statement
To improve urological health and health care, we seek to create world leaders in health and medicine, discover the basis for wellness and cures for urological disease, foster a culture of justice, 股本, 多样性, 和包容, cultivate community partnerships, and heal humankind one patient at a time.
UCLA 泌尿外科: Being a Part of the Solution
斯坦利·K. 法国人，医学博士，公共卫生硕士， Associate Professor of UCLA 泌尿外科 and Director of 泌尿外科 and Chair of Perioperative Services Department at 马丁·路德·金. 皇冠hga020电脑版 Hospital (MLKCH), has been named the UCLA 泌尿外科 Director of Justice, 股本, 多元化和包容性. Dr. 弗朗切尔博士和他的同事. Jesse Mills, leads the department's Task Force on Justice, 股本, 多元化和包容性 that includes more than a dozen staff, resident physicians, fellows and faculty members.
The mission of the Task Force is to dismantle racist policy, engage in honest conversation, identify challenges and implement recommendations to foster a culture in which 多样性, 股本, 包容, and social justice become the fabric of the department.
The Task Force has identified five priority areas to create a culture of 包容 within our department and the broader community that we serve: 1) representation, 2) awareness and understanding, 3) education and training, 4) 股本 in care delivery and 5) pipeline programs and community engagement.
UCLA 泌尿外科 has long worked to promote justice, 股本, 多样性, 和包容 in our faculty and training programs, to bring high-quality care to traditionally underserved communities, and to right the health care injustices and inequities that persist.
Message from the UCLA 泌尿外科 Chair
1966年，博士. 马丁·路德·金., declared: “Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health care is the most shocking and inhumane.” 更多的 than 50 years later, our society has arrived at a moment that was long overdue even when Dr. King made that observation: a reckoning with the toxic effects of centuries of systemic racism, including ongoing injustices in health care.
UCLA 泌尿外科 has long worked to promote justice, 股本, 多样性, 和包容 in our faculty and training programs, and to bring high-quality care to traditionally underserved communities. And we must continue to work to right the injustices and inequities that persist in health care. 在美国, the legacy of systemic racism in sectors such as education, 住房, and employment means that Black, 土著, and people of color are more likely to experience reduced access to health care and poorer health. Within the larger health system, insufficient 多样性 among providers compromises the quality of care. Studies have shown that we all harbor implicit biases that can influence our care. As racial and ethnic disparities in health outcomes persist, we must act urgently to address the causes.
UCLA 泌尿外科 has embodied the values of justice, 股本, 多样性, 和包容 for many years, but as long as these problems remain, we must look inward and determine how we can do better. 这个过程正在进行中. It’s not an undertaking we will one day complete; rather, it will always be part of the fabric of our department, embedded in all that we do. It involves rooting out overt and covert forms of discrimination, as well as dismantling the systemic factors that perpetuate inequities. It involves pursuing 多样性 not merely as a matter of justice, but to improve quality. And it means continuing to venture well beyond the confines of Westwood and Santa Monica to bring our state-of-the-art care to communities that UCLA hasn’t always reached. We are proud of the high-quality services UCLA 泌尿外科 provides at our affiliate institutions in some of the most underserved areas of Los Angeles. Our goal is to become even more active participants and collaborators with these institutions to improve care and promote social justice, with the recognition that we all have much to learn, and that out of these interactions we will all become better practitioners.
We recognize that as an individual urology department, we can’t solve the entire societal scourge of systemic racism. But we also recognize our power to make a difference. In the words of cultural anthropologist Margaret Mead: “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.”
马克年代. 利特温，医学博士，公共卫生硕士