Designing Prefaculty Competencies for Diverse Learners Through a Modified Delphi Process.

Importance: Faculty diversity in academic medicine may better prepare the next generation of equity-minded health care practitioners and leaders. Prefaculty development is an emerging concept to support trainees in achieving key knowledge, skills, and experiences to become successful faculty.

Objective: To outline competencies, with corresponding milestones, to support the academic career development of learners, inclusive of racial, ethnic, sexual, and gender identities minoritized in medicine.

Analysis of a Community Health Screening Program and the Factors Affecting Access to Care.

Introduction Free community health fairs and screening initiatives can be effective in broadening access to care and improving health outcomes in historically marginalized communities. UTHealthCares is a community health-focused organization developed at the University of Texas Health Science Center in Houston. At the beginning of 2023, UTHealthCares oversaw a free community health fair in the Eastex-Jensen Area - a medically underserved area in Northeast Houston.

Office of Student Affairs: Engagement and Leadership Opportunities for Medical Students, Residents, and Fellows.

Introduction: Exposing trainees to roles within medical school offices is an important, but often overlooked, component of academic medicine career development. This module described the roles and responsibilities of staff within the Office of Student Affairs (OSA) and opportunities for trainees to become engaged, lead, and develop student affairs-related competencies.

Methods: The 90-minute workshop was presented at three regional conferences at US medical schools between September and December 2019.

Bridging the Gap: Holistic Review to Increase Diversity in Graduate Medical Education.

Problem: Racial and ethnic disparities in health outcomes remain pervasive in the U.S. health care system.