Advancing Equity-Focused Care

We support this work through:

• Improving the health and well-being of underrepresented minorities through focused efforts in community outreach
• Providing broad resident education on topics ranging from cultural humility to social determinants of health
• Providing faculty development designed to foster an inclusive workplace
• Executing scholarly work to advance the care of diverse groups of patients
• Actively recruiting diverse learners, faculty, and staff into our Community Memorial community through our sponsoring institutional policies, faculty education on recruitment, outreach, and our high school pathways program
• Encouraging mentor relationships with faculty to support and retain residents and enrich the experience of faculty
• Tracking and reporting metrics on diversity to better inform our efforts and to measure our success

Community Memorial Scholarship for Fourth Year Audition Rotations

Our Graduate Medical Education program is committed to supporting the professional development of students underrepresented in medicine. We invite interested underrepresented fourth year medical students with financial need who have faced adversity due to their social identities or backgrounds to apply for our Community Memorial Scholarship program.

Through the program, we offer an elective two- to four-week clinical rotation, supported by:

• Up to a $3000 stipend to assist with documented housing/travel expenses
• Meals while on hospital campus
• Faculty & senior resident mentorship

Students can apply to our fourth year audition rotation through the VSLO website. On the application, students eligible for and interested in, our scholarship should check the applicable box and complete that portion of the application.