We are excited to share the WashU School of Medicine ODEI annual MLK Week Commemoration 2024 dates, Tuesday, January 16th – Friday, January 19th. This year’s theme is “Honoring Martin Luther King, Jr. as a whole human being.”
Nominate a Colleague for the Drum Major Awards
The Upstander Awards recognize individuals at WashU School of Medicine who embody what it means to be an upstander. Awardees should be those who speak up or act in support of an individual or cause, particularly someone who intervenes on behalf of a person being bullied or attacked. Upstanders are people who speak and act against injustices.
Long-COVID clinic expanding reach to vulnerable metro, rural communities (Links to an external site)
Physicians and researchers at the School of Medicine are working with community partners to identify needs and better deliver services to medically vulnerable and underserved communities in the St. Louis metropolitan region and rural Missouri.
Medical student-led community screenings help address health inequities (Links to an external site)
Dispensing health-care advice and offering information about community resources at the Greater St. Louis Hispanic Festival in September was Joshua McPhie, a fourth-year medical student at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. McPhie, along with 10 other Spanish-speaking medical students, screened patients in the Healthy Kid Express van, a mobile health-care clinic.
High school founded with help of med school leader receives accolades (Links to an external site)
Will Ross co-founded Collegiate School of Medicine and Bioscience in 2013. A magnet public high school, Collegiate aims to serve high-achieving students, many of whom reside in under-resourced neighborhoods and are interested in pursuing careers in science, medicine and health. In August, Collegiate School was ranked the No. 2 public high school out of 455 schools in Missouri, and No. 150 in the nation.
Healthcare advocate Brenda Battle keynotes HG Phillips Lecture (Links to an external site)
Brenda Battle returned to St. Louis to deliver the Homer G. Phillips Public Health Lecture Series keynote address and she offered a stirring message urging the region to reduce its healthcare disparities. The annual event carried the 2023 theme of “Anchoring Communities: A Roadmap to Equity and Transformation in Marginalized Communities.”
ODEI is turning 5: Fifth Year Celebration
The WUSM Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion is celebrating five years of existence on our campus! We hope this month can serve as a time to reflect on the impacts our diversity, equity, and inclusion consulting and education have made on our campus.
Achieving gender equity in medicine (Links to an external site)
Nationally, women enter medical school in similar proportions to men, but often, the number of women in leadership still lags behind
Program prepares employees for high-demand, high-paying nursing jobs (Links to an external site)
Pre-nursing program, in partnership with Goldfarb School of Nursing, meets needs of working adults with little or no college.
Class Acts: Alexandra Zdonczyk (Links to an external site)
Medical student focused on health equity in vision care As a Latina, I also see many examples of health inequities among native Spanish speakers. A lot of providers don’t speak Spanish. Language barriers can have a major impact on health care. It’s important for people who are bilingual, like me, to go into the community, […]