Access and Community Impact

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To achieve better health outcomes and ensure an optimal patient experience, the clinical site develops, assesses, and monitors its strategies and efforts to promote diversity, equity, and inclusion and improve interprofessional learning. The optimal clinical learning environment commits to strategies, policies, procedures, and practices that are equitable and inclusive of all individuals, regardless of their race, culture, ethnicity, religion, ability, sexual orientation, gender identity, and other dimensions of diversity.

 

The clinical learning environment fosters a diverse, equitable, and inclusive environment to address the unique needs of every patient, enhance the learner experience, and eliminate disparities in quality of care.

• DEI Pathway 1: Clinical learning environment ensures diversity, equity, and inclusion across the clinical care team to optimize learning and patient care
• DEI Pathway 2: Clinical learning environment creates and maintains interprofessional education and training and facilitates learning on diversity, equity, and inclusion
• DEI Pathway 3: Clinical learning environment maintains the necessary support systems to ensure diversity, equity, and inclusion
• DEI Pathway 4: Clinical learning environment creates and maintains diversity among the clinical care team to optimize learning and patient care
• DEI Pathway 5: Clinical learning environment monitors the effectiveness and outcomes of its efforts to integrate and achieve diversity, equity, and inclusion