Recruiting and Retaining a Diverse Critical Care Workforce

Concurrent Session Moderator(s)

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  Julieta Munoz Mejia, MD

  Monument Health Rapid City Hospital
  Rapid City, South Dakota

  Disclosure(s): No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose.
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  Orlando Garner, MD

  Intensivist
  Midland Memorial Hospital
  Midland, Texas

  Disclosure(s): No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose.

Pervasive gender and racial disparities among critical care medicine and pulmonary critical care medicine fellows continue. One-third of critical care medicine and pulmonary critical care medicine trainees are female, despite near gender parity in internal medicine residencies and medical schools. Physicians from underrepresented in medicine (UIM) populations comprise only about 10% of pulmonary critical care fellows. This session will explore causes of existing gender and racial disparities, such as overt and subconscious bias, discrimination, gendered stereotypes and role expectations, pay and leadership inequities, and disproportionate domestic and caregiving responsibilities, as well as strategies to recruit and support female and UIM trainees.

Presentations:

• Recruitment Strategies for Improving Gender Diversity in Critical Care Fellowship Programs
  

  Concurrent Session Faculty: Hayley B. Gershengorn, MD, ATSF, FCCM – University of Miami Miller School of Medicine
• How to Recruit, Support, and Retain Underrepresented-in-Medicine Trainees in Critical Care
  

  Concurrent Session Faculty: Helina Wakwaya, MD – Baylor Saint Lukes Medical Center McNair Campus
• Strategies for Successful Mentorship of Female and Underrepresented-in-Medicine Critical Care Trainees
  

  Concurrent Session Faculty: Andrea B. Braun, MD, Dr. med. – Baylor College of Medicine
• Supporting a Gender and Racially Diverse Workforce During Fellowship Training: The Program Director's Perspective
  

  Concurrent Session Faculty: Sandy S. An, MD, PhD (she/her/hers) – Duke University Medical Center
• Strategies to Help Female and Underrepresented-in-Medicine Trainees Launch Successful Post-Graduation Careers
  

  Concurrent Session Faculty: Mada F. Helou, MD – University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center

  Concurrent Session Faculty: Nicholas L. Pesa, MD – University Hospitals