Here at the BCRP,

we serve a multi-cultural community and we believe that healthcare can be a powerful platform for social change. We know that diversity and inclusion are critical to sustaining and strengthening our tradition of excellence both at Boston Medical Center and at the BCRP.

We strive to create a positive workplace and learning environment where diversity is celebrated and inclusion is a reflex not merely an initiative. This means developing and cultivating diversity of thought, perspective, and experience. This also means creating an atmosphere of empathy, understanding, and respect necessary to continue personal growth and to provide exceptional care to patients who's background and experiences differ from our own. 

Our commitment to our BCRP family, is that each member of the BCRP feels that they can bring their full selves forward and be a truly engaged and valued individual throughout their clinical training. That as a program we can masterfully celebrate and engage in our differences whether grounded in race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, religious affiliation, ability, socioeconomic status, philosophical beliefs, or life experience. 

Our commitment to our community, is to do more than merely assemble a diverse group of physicians: we aim to teach the skills, model the behaviors, provide the resources, and cultivate the environment of inclusion that is required to provide excellent patient care, spark healthcare innovation, motivate social responsibility, and drive social change. 

To that end there is a lot happening here! Please reach out to one of the Diversity Chief Residents if you have questions about how to get involved!

blair.streater@childrens.harved.edu and sabrina.karim@childrens.harvard.edu

Becoming an Inclusive Educator

The BCRP is dedicated to dismantling systemic oppression in medicine through education. We highly encourage all of our clinician educators to join us in these efforts in creating a resident curricula that reflects our shared values of diversity and inclusion. 

• Brown University SoM on practical ways to create inclusive curricula - video and guide (0:08:00)

• Enable LIVE TRANSCRIPTION/CLOSED CAPTIONING for Zoom: Instructions Here

• Use Google Slides Presenter View with Closed Captioning Enabled for virtual learning to provide live transcription of audio for use with virtual platforms other than Zoom.

Addressing Microaggressions & Bias in the Workplace

• HOW TO REPORT BIAS- Updated 6/2022

• Understanding Microaggressions with Tiffany Alvoid TedTalk (0:8:59)

• Microaggression Training (1:28:52)

• Harvard Business School: How and When to Respond to Microaggressions

• Yale Tips on a Reparative Response Model

• Yale Examples of Reparative Responses

• LinkedIn Bystander to Upstander Training (0:40:00)

Understanding Structural Racism

• AAMC Race and Health Reading List

• ACT TV Explaining Income and Education Racial Disparities (0:04:23)

• Collated “Anti-Racism Resources for White People”

  • A compilation of books, articles, podcasts and social media for anti-racism education - with links to other anti-racism education sites

• “A Syllabus of Anti-Racism” course by Rachel Cargle

Pediatric Provider Resources

• “Talking to Children about Racial Bias”

• “Talking to Families about Racism”

• “AAP Pediatricians Called to Address Racism”

• BU Center for Anti-Racism Research