Creating and sustaining inclusive, healthy climates requires intentional action. We have collected a variety of resources encouraging faculty to address bias and privilege; workforce diversity; empathy and respect; wellness and moments for mindfulness. Together as a team we can build a community that ensures welcoming and healthy spaces for all. Find out more about how SMPH is building community. We have included some resources that are brief snippets or what we call “Just in Time” information and the opportunity to take a “Deeper Dive” into more detailed or lengthy resources. Wellbeing resources are located in the ‘Deeper Dive’ section. Inclusive teaching resources are available on our Developing Educators→ Diversity, Equity & Inclusion page.
Just In Time
These Just In Time resources are ideal if you only have a couple of minutes to start finding out about Ensuring an Inclusive, Healthy, Climate.
Building Community
Source: UWMedicine
Learn more about Building Community from Dean Robert N. Golden, MD.
Additional Resources:
CEO Karen McNeil-Miller gives advice to help minority women succeed in the workplace.
Discover inadvertent oversights and biases which can prevent you from creating an accurate and fair portrayal of your reccomendee.
Learn about the hazards of sexual harassment for female medical professionals and what medical institutions are doing to address it.
Defines white privilege by its history and origins.
Deeper Dive
If you have more time to invest, these Deeper Dive resources are longer and/or more in depth so you can gain a deeper understanding of Ensuring an Inclusive, Healthy, Climate.
Wellbeing
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Moments for Mindfulness
Mindfulness is the basic human ability to be fully present, aware of where we are and what we’re doing, and not be overly reactive or overwhelmed by what’s going on around us. While mindfulness is something we all naturally possess, it’s more readily available to us when we practice on a daily basis. Below are some useful resources to help you begin your journey to mindfulness.
Links:
History of Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) in Research
Mindfulness Practices in 5 Minutes or Less (link)
A Simple Technique to Calm Your Anxious Mind in 20 Minutes (link)
Get Off The Anxiety Hamster Wheel (link)
Videos:
5 Minute “Follow Me” Tai Chi – Great for Beginners (video)
Quick Stress Fix – 5 Minute Sequence (video)
5-Minute Morning Yoga – Yoga With Adriene (video)
5 Minute Calming Meditation (With Guiding Voice) (video)
Positive Mind in 5 Minutes Meditation (video)
UW Health Employee Wellbeing Resources for Staff and Providers (link)
UW Health Employee Wellbeing Resources for Staff and Providers
Offers resources and programs to improve wellness for UW-Health staff and physicians. Multiple topics are available (links at left): Emotional Wellbeing, Financial Wellbeing, Physical Wellbeing, and Wellbeing In My Workday.
UW Health Human Resources
UW Health Human Resources
Serves the full-service human resources needs related to nurses and other UW Health staff member.
Contact: (608) 263-6500 Monday-Friday, 7:30am-5pm or submit a help ticket at the HR Help Desk.
UW Health Maintaining Staff and Provider Wellbeing Through COVID-19 (link)
UW Health Maintaining Staff and Provider Wellbeing Through COVID-19
Provides tools and resources for faculty mental, emotional and physical wellbeing through the COVID-19 public health situation. Topics available (links at left): Peer Support, and COVID-19 Recovery Videos.
Wellness— University Health Services
Wellness— University Health Services
University Health Services offers wellness programs in an individual or group setting to support a student’s pursuit of health mind, body, and spirit. Their programs include: healthy living consultation, nutritional counseling, meditation training, mindfulness training, authentic happiness and positive psychology programs, exercise consultation, yoga, massage, stress management, sleep management, headache treatment, and smoking cessation.
Bias, Empathy, and Influence
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Active Bystanders (link)
Overcome bystander apathy by testing your own reactions to these “choose your action” responding to situation scenarios.
Addressing Harmful Bias and Eliminating Discrimination in Health Professions Learning Environments (link)
Addressing Harmful Bias and Eliminating Discrimination in Health Professions Learning Environments
Academic Medicine Volume 95 12S, December 2020
Review this volume of free articles discussing aspects of ensuring a healthy climate: the leaning environment, educators and learners, assessment, curricular interventions, and the way forward.
Creating a Level Playing Field (video)
Creating a Level Playing Field
Find solutions to properly evaluate individuals in order to avoid making mistakes when considering them for opportunities, promotions, and recognition.
Speaker: Shelley Correll
Power and Influence (video)
When people want to make an impression, most think a lot about what they want to say. Considering words account for 7% of what people will take away, while body language counts for 55%, you may want to think twice about your approach. Learn the body language of power, authority and being approachable.
Speaker: Deborah Gruenfeld
The power of empathy (video)
Better outcomes for engaged patients may start with an empathic doctor. Learn more about translational research based on the neuroscience of emotions and empathy.
Why being respectful to your coworkers is good for business (video)
Why Being Respectful to your Coworkers is Good for Business
Realize how respecting your coworkers can not only positively impact your career but also improve your company’s bottom line.
Speaker: Christine Porath, Associate Professor at the University of Nevada
Women at Work (video)
Many of the hurdles women face at work can be categorized into four patterns of bias. By seeing these patterns, women can stop feeling like their set-backs are purely personal failings, and start to succeed at work.
Speaker: Joan C. Williams
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
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Achieving Gender Equity in Physician Compensation and Career Advancement (link)
Achieving Gender Equity in Physician Compensation and Career Advancement: A Position Paper of the American College of Physicians
Annals of Internal Medicine. 2018; 168(10):721-3.
Discusses challenges that female physicians face over the course of their careers and provides recommendations to improve gender equity and ensure that the full potential of female physicians is realized.
Authors: Renee Butkus, BA; Joshua Serchen, BA; Darilyn V. Moyer, MD; Sue S. Bornstein, MD; Susan Thompson Hingle, MD; for the Health and Public Policy Committee of the American College of Physicians *
identity– Inclusive Teaching
Browse through the University of Michigan’s inclusive teaching posts.
NIH Scientific Workforce Diversity (link)
NIH Scientific Workforce Diversity
The Scientific Workforce Diversity (SWD) Office leads NIH’s effort to diversify the national scientific workforce and expand recruitment and retention. Take some time to explore the Science of Diversity, and how institutions can do their part in Sustaining Diversity. Learn to mitigate the effects of Sociocultural Factors and how the NIH is Building Evidence these factors create career transition gaps.
See also the NIH Scientific Workforce Diversity Toolkit (link), (pdf)
UW Health U-Connect Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Resources
UW Health U-Connect Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Resources
These resources provide employees information about topics that can help them increase their awareness of diverse backgrounds and foster a culture of inclusion and respect among patients, employees, learners and the communities we serve.
UW Health Office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
UW Health Office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
UW Health is committed to being a diverse and inclusive environment for patients, visitors, staff and physicians and has an office dedicated to these efforts.
Contact: Shiva Bidar-Sielaff, Vice President, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion at sbidar-sielaff@uwhealth.org.