Blogs
Future Focus: Incorporating People and Process—What’s on the Horizon?
Since the initiative’s launch in 2015, we have undertaken several RBI activities and endeavors that have primarily addressed recommendations related to racism and bias content in curricular and student affairs, admissions, and in other functional areas of the school....
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Looking Back to Move Forward: Steps to Combat Racism and Bias—A Review
As you know, the Department of Medical Education has launched several initiatives over the past few years to raise awareness of and systematically combat racism and bias in our learning environment. The following provides a glimpse of preliminary actions taken during...
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Change Management Meets the Racism and Bias Initiative | An Introduction to the Methodology from Dr. Leona Hess
A New York-native, Dr. Hess is a systems thinker and transformational change strategist. Joining Med Ed in October of last year, her primary role is to develop and apply a Change Management methodology to the Racism and Bias Initiative (RBI). By doing so she will...
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New Graduation Awards Praise Anti-Racism Changemakers
The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai is proud to announce three new graduation awards beginning in the 2016–17 academic year. Starting with the Class of 2017, graduating medical students who have demonstrated a commitment to mitigating racism and bias in our...
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A Sanctuary Campus
The Mount Sinai Health System, which includes the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai (ISMMS) and seven hospital campuses, is a safe haven where patients, students, and employees are free to receive care, learn, and work without fear of discrimination, harassment...
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These Times
The past few weeks have been intense. We continue to face the challenge of addressing mental health and well-being, while coping now with a national landscape that has increasingly normalized racist and biased rhetoric and behavior. We at the Icahn School of Medicine...
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#WhatDoctorsLookLike
In response to Dr. Tamika Cross’s encounter with bias and discrimination while aboard a Delta flight on October 9, over the past couple of weeks, we created a declaration to share solidarity with Dr. Cross and to acknowledge #WhatDoctorsLookLike. Our statement is now...
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Wellness Includes Equity
As you know, a task force has been formed to explore wellness in our community and to reflect on the adequacy of well-being resources and mental health support for our trainees. Directly impacting wellness in our learners is the larger community and country that we...
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Top Picks—A Suggested Reading List
We would like to share a reading list that we believe can increase awareness and a different level of understanding of racism and bias. We are also interested in hearing from you. If you have suggestions of additional text, please feel free to send them our way. The...
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#JusticeForAlan
Christian Pean is a fourth-year medical student here at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. As many of you know, Christian's brother Alan was shot this past August in a hospital while attempting to get treatment. Thankfully Alan survived and is able tell his...
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