Continuing the Division’s long commitment to mentoring, the Mentoring Committee solicited member feedback to inform the committee’s activities for the 2015 conference.

We launched a mentoring survey in February in order to:
1) learn more about the expertise of our mentors;
2) learn more about the goals of our junior member mentees;
3) match mentors and mentees along similar areas of interest, and
4) engage junior and mid-career faculty in the opportunity to be both mentors and mentees.

We received 37 responses from 18 Mentees and 19 Mentors, which included 3 individuals who identified as both mentors and mentees. We will continue the junior-senior pairings this year. Prior to the conference, mentees and mentors will be contacted with details and information. This year we have 18 pairings. Most mentees identified as graduate students, seeking guidance on scholarship and career advice, which our mentors have in abundance!

We are also announcing a “Meet your Mentor” social hour, an informal gathering of mentors and mentees that will facilitate introductions and educational discussion of mutual interest. It is an open event and all members are encouraged to attend! We hope this event provides a relaxed setting for informal interactions, networking, and dialogue about professional education.

The gathering will be on Friday, April 17th at Chi Bar, Sheraton Hotel Towers at 8pm, at the end of the Division I business meeting.

The Mentoring Committee is comprised of two co-chairs, Rebecca Blanchard and Christina Cestone and three members at large, Lara Varpio, Bridget O’Brien (prior chair) and Maria Blanco (prior chair). Contact Christina ([email protected]) or Rebecca ([email protected])

if you would like to get involved. See you in Chicago!

Everyone is welcome to the CoDE meeting, Sunday, 7:00 am!

I’m looking forward to meeting so many of you at the annual meeting. In order to gain a broader understanding of educational research related to CoDE across the professions, we’re planning a session for Sunday morning during the Annual Meeting. This breakfast meeting will take place at 7:00am in the VP Suite at the Swiss hotel. Please call at the front desk and ask for LuAnn Wilkerson to get the room number.

I’d ask each of you interested in attending to bring a citation, or better yet a copy, of a published research work on diversity done either by you or others at your institution, and/or a work that served as a seminal influence on your research or understanding of the impact of diversity upon education in your particular profession. We will distribute a paper copy of our current Diversity Bibliography, and hope to add new entries after the discussions at the meeting.

Below are some of the sessions related to diversity and equity:
Friday, 2:15-3:45, Research on Training Professionals for Practice in a Multicultural Society, Sheraton, Ballroom Level, Sheraton III Sunday, 8:15-9:45, Researching a Region for Educational Equity, Hyatt, East, Purple, Riverside East Sunday, 10:35 – 12:05, Research on Diversity and Equity in the Professions, Sheraton, Ballroom Level, Sheraton III Sunday, 4:05-5:35, Cultural Competence, Hyatt, East, Purple, Riverside East

Lawrence 'Hy' Doyle,
Committee on Diversity and Equity (CoDE) Chair

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The mission of the Division I Committee on Diversity and Equity (CoDE) is to welcome investigations that target issues of diversity and equity and to encourage use of multiple research paradigms. CoDE seeks to increase participation in the Division by persons of all demographic groups and by educators from every professional field.

The Health Professions Education Bibliography: An Opportunity

As issues of diversity change and the legal and cultural landscape of professions education changes, the bibliog- raphy is an excellent means to track the historical trajectory of the field and to keep current on theory and practice. An initial draft of the revised Division I Annotated Bibliography of Diversity in Health Professions is now in progress, thanks to the efforts of Hy Doyle and two UCLA Health Careers Connection Interns, Anabel Alcaraz and Beatriz C. Marrón. The bibliography seeks to be comprehensive of diversity in all aspects, including all professional education fields. Additional contributions are desperately needed from professional fields outside of medicine and dentistry. New collaborators are welcomed! Working on building the bibliography is an excellent opportunity for early career researchers or new members to Division I to contribute to a scholarly work and to collaborate with well-established researchers. We strongly encourage anyone (whether a member of CoDE or not) who would like to participate in contributing to this important work to contact Hy Doyle ([email protected]).

Please have a look at the existing annotated bibliography in this pdf format, we will shortly have a more interactive version available.

Given other responsibilities for Division I (2015 Program Chair!), I have asked the Executive Committee to name a new chair for CoDE. I am pleased to announce that the new chair of CoDE will be Hy Doyle who will also represent Division I on the AERA Affirmative Action Council. Hy, officially Lawrence H. Doyle, is an associate professor of medicine at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA where he directs the Summer Medical and Dental Education Program and the UCLA Program in Medical Education, both major outreach and diversity initiatives of the School. He has been involved in diversity activities for students from high school through medical school for over 30 years at institutions across the country. He is currently serving on the Committee on Student Diversity Affairs of the Association of American Medical Colleges and has been a member of CoDE for the past three years. Please join me in thanking him for taking on this responsibility for the Division and let him know if you would like to be involved in the committee.

Hugh Stoddard ([email protected])
Past Chair, Committee on Diversity and Equity
Division I Affirmative Action Officer