The Inclusion, Diversity, Anti-Racism, and Equity (IDARE) initiative catalyzes a UC Davis School of Medicine and UC Davis Health wide effort to advance the goals outlined in the UC Davis Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Strategic Vision. With oversight and guidance from our IDARE faculty co-leads Dr. Mika Godzich (she/her) and Dr. MK Orsulak (she/her), the Department of Family and Community Medicine helps to lead and actively contributes to the initiative. In our current five-year departmental strategic plan, anti-racism is a cross-cutting theme that informs our work in four main pillars of activity:
The UC Davis School of Medicine continues to recruit an exceptional group of students who are singularly interested in primary care:
Much of the work pursued by our faculty is relevant to IDARE goals. Examples include: