Inclusivity, excellence, and diversity
The Department of Surgery at Downstate Health Sciences University is committed to building a community that explicitly recognizes the value of inclusivity, excellence, and human diversity.
We believe that by creating a diverse, respectful, and inclusive training environment we can develop the best work place and the best trainees. In addition to the institutional work on inclusivity in recruitment and selection committees structure; implementing educational programs that provide skills in cross-cultural communication and cultural sensitivity skills to enable effective communication and interaction with an increasingly global and multi-ethnic population; we are also looking at increasing mentoring and sponsorship activities between senior and junior faculty members.
A focus of the departmental research mission is to investigate and create solutions on health disparities. Many of our academic initiatives are focused on addressing these disparities in ways that promote and augment our contribution to medicine and our own communities.