LSU Pediatrics Community Engagement Initiatives
LSUHSC Community Engagement
As an institution of higher learning, LSUHSC embraces a culture where everyone works for the betterment of the individual and community. Leadership, faculty, staff, and learner educational experience enables us to better address healthcare inequities and cultural competency in clinical care. The welcoming community and patient population that LSUHSC fosters trainees' understanding and effective delivery of care to individuals of unique backgrounds, which is integral to the institution's academic mission. As a community, LSUHSC embraces the full range of human difference.
To demonstrate LSU's commitment to community and institutional values, an Assistant Vice Chancellor for Office of Community Engagement is charged with creating programs for successful recruitment and retention of faculty, staff, and students from all communities to foster excellence in research, education, patient care and community service.
Specifically, the School of Medicine's Office of Community Engagement has a series to develop awareness, literacy and acknowledgement of the structural frameworks which intersect in the space health care inequities, and disparities.
LSUHSC New Orleans welcomes, needs, and celebrates its strong voices. Our training program is our present and future and serves a beautiful community. We are committed to a welcoming, vibrant training experience, and to learning how to care more completely for each other and our patients.
Visiting Diversity Clerkship in Pediatrics Scholarship Program
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Initiated in 2019 to offer a preliminary rotation experience to URiM applicants
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Two students selected annually via an application process
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Supported by LSU and Children's Hospital of New Orleans
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Objectives
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Increase applicant exposure to our residency program and the New Orleans community
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Supplement other recruitment efforts to enhance diversity
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Provide partnership with a resident mentor for ongoing support
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*Due to COVID-19, we were unable to offer an in-person rotation experience. The opportunity was temporarily replaced with a virtual experience.
Pediatric Virtual Rotation: Perspectives in Medicine
A visiting virtual rotation that focuses on preparing students for residency, patient safety/quality, and diversity in medicine/healthcare disparities. Applicants who are underrepresented in medicine are prioritized for selection for the rotation. The rotation schedule was built to enhance exposure for diverse students interested in learning more about the community we serve and about our support structures in place for diverse residents. Sessions include networking sessions with both residents and faculty members.
**In future years, the program - in conjunction with the student leadership team - hopes to offer both the scholarship and the virtual opportunity to further increase exposure to our program and to enhance recruitment efforts.
Resident Engagement and Support
- Faculty mentorship for diverse residents and fellows was initiated in July 2020 with
a future goal to pair newly matched residents prior to residency orientation.
- Departmental funding support for resident involvement in the SNMA National Conference to improve opportunities for networking and personal/professional growth.
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Resident engagement on a Children's Hospital's Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Subcommittee (coming 2021)
Resident Education
- Monthly resident curriculum focused on healthcare disparities, racial injustice, implicit/explicit
bias, etc.
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Flipped-classroom learning
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Faculty-facilitated discussions
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Interactive activities
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Monthly LSU Pediatric Chairman's Conferences are held to facilitate resident dicussion around important cases and/or ethical topics in the recent literature. Topics include cultural competency, healthcare disparities, diversity and inclusion.