EDI Resources
UW Network of Underrepresented Residents & Fellows
UW NURF is a resident and fellow run organization founded in the fall of 2010. The organization is a diverse body of residents, fellows, faculty and staff, representing all specialties. NURF is co-sponsored by the UW Graduate Medical Education Office and the Office of Healthcare Equity. Our aim is to promote cultural diversity in medicine through community involvement, education, advocacy, policy, mentorship, professional networking and recruitment and retention of underrepresented minorities (URMs) in medicine.
Department of Health Care Equity - Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Foundational Training
In June 2020, as part of our UW Medicine response and call to action regarding racial injustice, our executive leadership pledged to become an anti-racist organization. This will include identifying and dismantling policies and practices that perpetuate structural racism, along with creating supportive, protected spaces for open, difficult dialogue about race, racism, and the impact of oppression, particularly on our Black staff, faculty, students, trainees, and patients.
UW Graduate Medical Education Commitment to EDI
The GME Office at the UWSOM is committed to recruiting underrepresented minorities and physicians with diverse backgrounds to our residency and fellowship programs. Diversity of ideas and experiences is integral to our educational and clinical missions. In this context, we are mindful of all aspects of human differences such as socio-economic status, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, spiritual practice, geography, disability and age.
UW Medicine Equity Blueprint
In the fall of 2017 the UW Medicine Healthcare Equity Blueprint was operationalized by the newly formed healthcare equity team. The main focus of this team was to gather information about the current state of equity, diversity and inclusion (EDI) perspectives and activities, as well as to provide information, education and training to advance the principles and practices of EDI throughout the health system.
UW School of Medicine Race and Equity Initiative
The mission of the UW School of Medicine is to promote the health and well-being of the communities it serves locally, regionally and globally. The School recognizes that diversity and inclusion are central to its pursuit of excellence and is committed to building a diverse staff, student body and faculty that reflect the communities it serves and an inclusive institutional culture that fosters innovation, collaboration and excellence in its research, biomedical education and health care activities and programs.
Society of Women in Urology
SWU, formerly known just as “Women in Urology,” informally began at the 1980 AUA meeting in San Francisco, when five female urologists met for breakfast to discuss their experiences and frustrations. Such informal meetings continued until 1992, when the group created an executive board and introduced bylaws. SWIU now has more than 950 members, including over 300 board-certified female urologists, as well as female researchers, urology residents, fellows, post-residency, pre-board-certified women. SWIU also has female members who are non-urology MDs and PhDs.