@article{2b15473693bf412780d682862507b37d,
title = "Addressing the Surgical Workplace: An Opportunity to Create a Culture of Belonging",
abstract = "We have learned today that microaggressions and microexclusions negatively affect the surgical workplace and erode and prevent a culture of belonging. To support equity and inclusion, there is a critical need for policies and metrics that can help to guide and track success as well as measure and define areas for improvement. The identity-based surgical societies exist to provide support and mentorship to those who are underrepresented in medicine and medical leadership. These organizations are critical partners necessary in forging a path forward however, diversity and inclusion are not the work of these societies alone. Our profession will only make progress if we all work together. Providing a safety net relating to microaggressions and microexclusions in the workplace represents the first step.",
author = "Pugh, {Carla M.} and Kirton, {Orlando C.} and Tuttle, {J. E.} and Maier, {Ronald V.} and Hu, {Yue Yung} and Stewart, {John H.} and Freischlag, {Julie Ann} and Sosa, {Julie Ann} and Vickers, {Selwyn M.} and Hawn, {Mary T.} and Eberlein, {Timothy J.} and Farmer, {Diana L.} and Higgins, {Robert S.} and Pellegrini, {Carlos A.} and Roman, {Sanziana A.} and Crandall, {Marie L.} and {De Virgilio}, {Christian M.} and Allan Tsung and Britt, {L. D.}",
note = "Funding Information: This work received funding from the following organizations: National Institutes of Health (NIH); Wellcome Trust; Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI); and other(s). Funding Information: Diversity change begins with real action, more than just conversation, and while building the pipeline is a long-term commitment, it is the place to start. The metrics of success, the pipeline programs, require patience, but the only way we will get more diverse surgeons, is to have more diverse medical students, more diverse college applicants, more diverse high school kids interested in science, etc. So academic medicine has made great strides in recent years to promote and achieve a more diverse workforce that represents the diversity of our patients and ensures health equity across the continuum of care, yet data show that there is still a great deal of work that needs to be done to meet this need. There are a variety of pipeline programs that have been supported by HRSA under Title 7 and Title 8 of the Public Health Services Act, as well as other federal programs that are proven solutions to addressing these issues, and help to promote a culturally competent diverse, prepared health care and biomedical workforce. But it is important for surgeons to be involved in all steps of pipeline development from grade school onwards. We need to be in high schools, sharing the joy and excitement of what we do now examples of some of these federal programs NERA, the Northeast Regional Alliance Med-prep program, is a combination that is federally funded—a program that is federally funded, and it brings together Rutgers, Columbia, Icahn School at Mount Sinai, and the Zucker School to Hofstra, and they combined with community-based organizations to better prepare young students from under-represented groups. The We Build Detroit Program at Wayne State is another program that is funded by the National Institutes of Health building infrastructure initiative that is specifically focused on biomedical research at the Bachelor{\textquoteright}s and Master{\textquoteright}s levels The Summer Health Professions Education Program or SHEP, are free summer programs sponsored by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and it is, again, a summer enrichment program focused on improving information and resources for college students in the health professions. Several of these programs have been described, are in evolution, and involve metrics of success, which again is a long-term commitment. You as an individual probably will not see that high school student that you influenced, achieve entry as a surgeon, but occasionally you do get a letter back from someone that you probably do not remember. “I met you when you gave a lecture 20 years ago at my high school”, and those are very heartening letters to get. There are so many ways to get this process started, primarily it is by getting boots on the ground and showing up. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2023 Lippincott Williams and Wilkins. All rights reserved.",
year = "2023",
month = apr,
day = "1",
doi = "10.1097/SLA.0000000000005773",
language = "English",
volume = "277",
pages = "551--556",
journal = "Annals of surgery",
issn = "0003-4932",
number = "4",
}