Responsible Officers: Dean of Faculty Affairs/Associate Dean for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
Policy Contact: Office of Faculty Affairs
Approved: August 13, 2024
Diversity Commitment
The Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth (Geisel) believes that a diverse and inclusive community of students, residents, fellows, staff, and faculty enhances our mission to address the world's health problems through research and discovery, evaluation and improvement of systems of healthcare, and the education and the development of the best health professionals and scientists of the future.
Dartmouth and Geisel are committed to academic excellence and encourages the open exchange of ideas within a culture of mutual respect. People with different backgrounds, life experiences, and perspectives make the Dartmouth community diverse, which enhances academic excellence.
Research demonstrates that working and learning in an environment that is diverse in thought and perspective results in improvement in the educational quality and organizational outcomes at all levels and for people of all backgrounds. Therefore, we commit resources to initiatives that will recruit, support, and retain students, trainees, faculty, and staff that encompass the full diversity of our population.
Diversity Policy
Within this broad scope, we set out the following objectives:
- To make known to the public Geisel’s commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion and their relationship to our attainment of goals of academic excellence and improved health care for all, regardless of circumstance.
- To ensure that all members of the community are informed of expectations for professional behavior and to understand how to educate a diverse, inclusive, and respectful academic community through online workshops/programs for all faculty, staff, and students.
- To build upon online modules that establish foundational learning and community expectations by establishing local networks within departments and instituting programmatic approaches, such as Restorative Justice, that will put into action principles set out through e-learning.
- To emphasize the recruitment of students who have faced systemic barriers to equal educational opportunity, and students who are active and former members of the U.S. military service to our student programs (MD and MPH), as well as to provide appropriate support to enhance their academic success. We also commit to working with the Guarini School of Graduate and Advanced Studies to support their recruitment efforts for PhD/MS students.
- To educate students on best practices within a complex society by providing curricula that address the role of society and disparities in health and healthcare.
- To work with our academic and clinical partners to ensure that we commit infrastructure and resources towards building a more diverse, equitable, and inclusive community.
Geisel commits to these objectives, to assessing outcomes, and to evaluating programs in order to monitor progress in attaining these goals.