Education & Training
The Office of Engagement & Opportunity hosts a variety of optional training and educational opportunities in collaboration with the Office of Pediatric Education to create a culture of continuous reflection, learning, and action to promote health equity.
Health Equity Advanced through Learning (HEAL) Initiative
Originally developed through SPAARC in 2020, the Health Equity Advanced through Learning (HEAL) Initiative encompasses 3 educational opportunities for the Department of Pediatrics and Stanford Medicine Children's Health:
- HEAL Seminars
- Health Equity Rounds
- Huddle Guides
HEAL Seminars
HEAL Seminars are educational workshops intended to provide foundational knowledge, offer tools to promote health equity and help create more inclusive work and learning environments.
Anti-Racism Seminar
Four-hour educational workshop on Medical Racism, Structural Racism, Microaggressions, and Effective Allyship.
Content originally developed in partnership with the Pediatric Residency Program and Stanford University experts in DEI and anti-racism.
Microaggressions Seminar
Two-hour educational workshop on foundational concepts, understanding microaggressions and their impact, and communication strategies to address microaggressions.
Gender Seminar
Two-hour educational workshop on foundational concepts, gender diversity and gender as a spectrum, gender oppression, and allyship strategies to address gender bias in the workplace.
Disability Seminar
1.5-hour educational workshop which covers foundational disability concepts, ableism within healthcare settings, and provides participants the opportunity to collaboratively develop action plans that increase inclusion and accessibility for people with disabilities.
Health Equity Rounds
Health Equity Rounds (HER) is a case-based learning series focused on issues related to health equity and approaching patient care with a lens that is inclusive and supportive of all types of human difference.
Presenters use real case discussions to highlight the role of bias, oppression, and other barriers in care and provide individual and local-level tools to mitigate them.
The goal of this initiative is to apply a structural humility lens to clinical care and apply lessons learned from HER to quality improvement and process improvement to address inequities with multidisciplinary partners.
Huddle Guides
Huddle Guides are one-page guides designed to use in short huddles or recurring meetings.
The primary objective is to make health Equity topics part of standard work.
HEAL Initiative Contact Information
HEAL in the Department of Pediatrics
For questions about the HEAL Initiative in the Department of Pediatrics, please contact: pediatrics-heal@stanford.edu.
HEAL Initiative at LPCH
For questions about the HEAL Initiative at Stanford Medicine Children’s Health, please contact: heal-at-lpch@stanford.edu
Pathway Programs to Support Learners
PIPS (Pediatric Internship Program at Stanford) is a 6-week internship for high school students from diverse backgrounds in the Bay Area to learn about science, medicine, and research under the mentorship of Stanford faculty.
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The Stanford Clinical Opportunity for Residency Experience (SCORE) Program draws 4th year medical students from a variety of backgrounds and life experiences to Stanford for a four-week residential clinical training program.
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The PRESS (Promoting Resident Experiences in the Subspecialties at Stanford) Program brings residents from a variety of backgrounds for four-week clinical training experiences in Pediatrics.
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GME Programs to Support Diversity
The Stanford Medicine LEAD (Leadership Education in Advancing Diversity) Program is a 10-month longitudinal leadership program for residents and fellows across GME to develop leadership and scholarship skills in addressing issues related to equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI), to produce leaders in academic medicine dedicated to EDI, and to improve the culture of medicine.
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