DEI and Land Acknowledgement
DEI (Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion)
At East Pierce Family Medicine, we strive to make our program a safe and welcoming space for all who enter. We embrace the wealth of diversity in Pierce County and advocate for equity and justice within our community, with awareness of the impact that race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, language, religion, socioeconomic status, and disability can have on outcomes within our healthcare system. Our goal is to train physicians that practice medicine with humility, compassion, and courage, and who will utilize their own unique perspectives and skills to provide exceptional care to their patients as well as being a force for continual improvement in the medical community at large.
Some of the resources we have at EPFM to support this goal include:
- Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (JEDI) council: JEDI is a residency-specific committee made up of faculty, residents, and staff, dedicated to teaching diversity, anti-racism, and health equity education within residency training and EPFM/JCPC clinics.
- WWAMI Racial Affinity Caucusing: online meetings held every few months that residents and faculty from family medicine residencies across the WWAMI network can join. Participants can use these meetings to meet with whichever group they identify with – the BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and Person of Color) caucus group or white caucus group – in order to discuss issues in medicine and medical training involving race with people who may have shared perspectives and insights.
Land Acknowledgement
We at EPFM acknowledge that we practice medicine on the stolen ancestral lands of the Coast Salish tribes, in particular the Puyallup Tribe. The Puyallup people have lived on and stewarded these lands since the beginning of time and continue to do so today. To learn more about this history as well how the Puyallup tribe is working to reclaim and protect these lands today and how you can support these efforts, please visit:
http://puyallup-tribe.com/ourtribe/
http://puyallup-tribe.com/ourtribe/Resources.php
https://www.puyalluptriballanguage.org/history/cushman.php
We recognize that this land acknowledgement is one small step toward true allyship, and we commit to uplifting the voices, experiences, and histories of the Indigenous people of this land and beyond.
Many thanks to the Puyallup tribe for providing resources to assist with the development of this acknowledgement at: http://puyallup-tribe.com/ourtribe/Land%20Acknowledgement.php
To learn more about becoming a Resident at EPFM, visit our Recruitment page.