We’re working to serve cultures and communities that have been underrepresented and marginalized by the health care system, and to ensure all feel welcome by reflecting our community's diversity in our hiring and clinical practices. Some examples of work in this area:
Culturally Competent, Socially Inclusive Care
Circumstances we’re helping to improve:
Addressing representation
Some cultures and communities have been underrepresented, and often marginalized, by the health care system and medical community
Creating structural change
Innovative, culturally congruent training prepares future care providers for practice in diverse, often medically underserved communities
Reflecting diversity
Ensuring all feel welcome by reflecting our community’s diversity in our hiring and clinical practices
Some examples of our efforts:
TRAINING FOR ALL CIRCUMSTANCES
Spotlight: Community Health Scholars
A long-established goal of the UC Davis School of Medicine is to train physicians for practice in diverse communities where they are most needed to bridge California’s health equity gap.
The school’s innovative Community Health Scholars programs train future doctors to practice in California’s rural, urban, valley and tribal communities, most of which are challenged by health disparities.
INVESTED AND RECOGNIZED
Spotlight: Leader in Healthcare Equality (LGBTQ+)
Named a LGBTQ+ Healthcare Equality Leader for 13 consecutive years by the educational arm of the Human Rights Campaign, a national-scale nonprofit that strives to end discrimination against LGBTQ+ people and realize a world that achieves fundamental fairness and equality for all.
TRAINING FOR ALL CIRCUMSTANCES
Spotlight: National honors for educational diversity
Despite California’s long-standing ban on affirmative action, the UC Davis School of Medicine has become one of the nation’s most diverse medical schools as ranked by U.S. News & World Report.
The medical school and the Betty Irene Moore School of Nursing at UC Davis, which employs similar holistic admissions practices, each have received excellence awards from INSIGHT Into Diversity magazine, and are in the policy and media spotlight as national models.
More Believe in Better Highlights
Some recent examples of our ongoing efforts to advance health for all.
Student inspired to study medicine after rural surgeon heals his broken finger
A finger injury at age 14 set Noah Lyndall on a path that brought him to the School of Medicine where he is among 139 new, first year students.
UC Davis nursing school’s high school program earns national STEM award
The Summer Health Institute for Nursing Exploration and Success at the Betty Irene Moore School of Nursing is recognized for making a difference for underrepresented groups.
Large study confirms: Siblings of autistic children have 20% chance of autism
A new, large study confirms earlier findings that children with an autistic sibling have a 20% chance of being autistic themselves.
California cancer patients now have greater access to life-saving biomarker testing
A new law backed by the University of California gives cancer patients access to biomarker testing so targeted therapies can be used to fight their cancer.