Members actively participate in a wide range of activities to promote awareness of topics such as cultural humility, cultural sensitivity, microaggression and microaffirmation. We emphasize the relationship these can have in all aspects of patient interactions and how these encounters may be influenced by cultural differences like age, gender, race, religion, size, sexual orientation and socioeconomic differences.
Education of our members, the Psychiatry Department, the Mass General clinical and administrative staff, and the wider community about diversity-related topics is accomplished through:
- Invited lecture series at monthly meeting for members
- Faculty retreats for members
- Frances Bonner MD Grand Rounds & award celebration
- Spring Diversity Speaker Series
- Blum Learning Center Brown Bag Lunches for the Mass General community
- Diversity Dialogue Workshops for groups in the Mass General community
- Publishing articles and books on diversity issues