Goals, organizational change, advocacy, diversity literacy, and sustainability: A checklist for diversity in cardiothoracic surgery training programs

Affiliations

¹ Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University, Philadelphia, Pa.
² General Surgery Residency Program, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC.
³ Department of Surgery, Center for Population Health, Lankenau Medical Center, Wynnewood, Pa.
⁴ Department of Thoracic Medicine and Surgery, Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University, Philadelphia, Pa.
⁵ Section of General Thoracic Surgery, UC Davis Health, Sacramento, Calif.
⁶ Division of Thoracic Surgery, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio.
⁷ Department of Thoracic Medicine and Surgery, Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University, Philadelphia, Pa. Electronic address: Cherie.erkmen@tuhs.temple.edu.

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Katherine A Ortmeyer et al. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg. 2021 Dec.

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. 2021 Dec;162(6):1782-1787.

doi: 10.1016/j.jtcvs.2020.11.112. Epub 2020 Dec 3.

¹ Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University, Philadelphia, Pa.
² General Surgery Residency Program, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC.
³ Department of Surgery, Center for Population Health, Lankenau Medical Center, Wynnewood, Pa.
⁴ Department of Thoracic Medicine and Surgery, Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University, Philadelphia, Pa.
⁵ Section of General Thoracic Surgery, UC Davis Health, Sacramento, Calif.
⁶ Division of Thoracic Surgery, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio.
⁷ Department of Thoracic Medicine and Surgery, Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University, Philadelphia, Pa. Electronic address: Cherie.erkmen@tuhs.temple.edu.

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Keywords: checklist; diversity; inclusion.

Comment in

Commentary: We need diversity in cardiothoracic surgery.
Okereke I. Okereke I. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg. 2021 Dec;162(6):1789-1790. doi: 10.1016/j.jtcvs.2020.11.094. Epub 2020 Nov 28. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg. 2021. PMID: 33353746 No abstract available.
Commentary: "What's in your diversity toolkit? Get the C-suite support".
Litle VR. Litle VR. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg. 2021 Dec;162(6):1788-1789. doi: 10.1016/j.jtcvs.2020.12.069. Epub 2020 Dec 25. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg. 2021. PMID: 33514467 No abstract available.