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JEDI (Justice, Equity, Diversity & Inclusion)
Through JEDI, we care deeply about putting forward a climate of justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion. We prioritize a path of learning, growth and adaptation to the cultural shifts that occur at the graduate medical education level. We feel it is paramount to maintain an open space for meaningful conversation with respect to all opinions and backgrounds.
How We View Diversity
Diversity represents all the ways in which people differ and it encompasses all the distinctive characteristics that make one individual or group different from another. It is all-inclusive. A broad definition would include race, ethnicity, language, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, social class, rural/urban/suburban status, veteran, spiritual, religious identity, handicap, disabled status, age or other socially determined circumstances that could be either visible or invisible.
How We View Health Equity
Equity represents fair and just practices ensuring all community members can thrive. Health equity is achieved when all people can reach their full health potential.
How We View Inclusion
Inclusion represents a supportive environment where all individuals feel valued and empowered to contribute.
At Samaritan Family Medicine Residency Program, faculty and residents work together on multiple administrative and curricular committees. We recognize the importance of resident representation and alignment with strategic planning.
Each year, we hold a spring planning conference where residents and faculty spend a day together evaluating the previous year’s priorities. We ask: what worked well? What didn’t work well? And, ultimately develop new strategic priorities for the residency for the next academic year. We view this as a comprehensive evaluation of our program, but more important, as a way for faculty and residents to authentically engage with each other.
How We View Justice
Justice brings it all together. Through our community engagement, DEI curriculum, JEDI breakout groups and longitudinal curricula, we ask the following questions:
View the Samaritan Equity and Inclusion plan.
In 2023, Samaritan Health Services launched a rural track residency program in Newport, Oregon.
With many of our surrounding rural/farm, coastal and tribal communities, we recognize the importance of the “rural mortality penalty.” Known factors such as education, poverty and race lead to higher mortality rates in rural areas compared to U.S. urban populations.
With our outreach, we continue to emphasize and build bridges into our local communities, to improve access, provide high quality primary care and improve health outcomes.
At it’s heart, community medicine is about reaching those who are often left out – by making care accessible, inclusive and ground in trust. It happens both within our clinic walls and out in the community, wherever people feel safest.
We ask:
Our current focus includes:
Community medicine is always evolving-because our communities are always evolving.
