Grand Rounds: Advancing Equity for Learners and Patients with Visiting Professor Dr. Jerry Maniate – April 9, 2024

Grand Rounds: Advancing Equity for Learners and Patients with Visiting Professor Dr. Jerry Maniate – April 9, 2024

Sponsored by the Office of Innovation and Scholarship in Medical Education, and the Office of Equity, Access, and Participation

There is growing data that supports what many marginalized and equity-deserving groups have experienced in our health system. The care, experiences, and outcomes they have are decreased compared to groups of higher power and privilege in our societies. This also parallels the challenging and even harrowing experience of EDGs in our health professions education system.  What levers can we utilize in our health professions education system to make a difference for both learners and patients? In this session we will explore how we can use the evidence on health equity to help us do better for the communities we serve through a refocused approach in our health professions education system.

Learning Objectives:
At the end of the workshop, participants will be able to:

1. Describe the benefits of diversity in the health system.
2. Create inclusive and accountable spaces for learning.
3. Train learners to understand and address inequities that they identify in the health system.

Guest Speaker: Jerry M. Maniate, MD, M.Ed, EMBA, FRCPC, FACP, CCPE, CPC(HC)
Associate Professor and Vice Chair of Member Support, uOttawa Department of Medicine
Faculty of Medicine, University of Ottawa
EDIA Advisor and Affiliated Researcher, Bruyère Research Institute
Executive Director & Primary Investigator, Equity in Health Systems Lab

Dr. Jerry Maniate is a clinician-educator at The Ottawa Hospital, an Associate Professor and inaugural Vice Chair of Member Support in the Department of Medicine at the University of Ottawa and is EDIA Advisor and a researcher at the Bruyère Research Institute. He is the Executive Director and Primary Investigator of the Equity in Health Systems Lab (www.eqhslab.com) which he founded in September 2021. The Lab is an international community of transdisciplinary researchers, health care professionals, educators, policymakers, learners, and patients who are seeking to make an impact on our community and health system with the work they are engaged with through a unique approach. His academic work and that of the EqHS Lab has been focused on understanding and addressing inequities, accessibility challenges, and social accountability in our health systems through collaborative partnerships using a scholarly lens.

This session will be hybrid with in-person and Zoom options to join.
Room location: 050 Apotex Building