The day before she helps launch the new Diversity Campus Read at UMass Medical School, cultural and linguistic competency expert Tawara Goode, MA, will make a related special presentation on “Mentoring Students and Faculty from Racial and Ethnic Groups Underrepresented in the Health Professions: What the Evidence is Telling Us.”
Ms. Goode, assistant professor of pediatrics at Georgetown University Medical Center and the director of the Georgetown University Center for Child and Human Development’s National Center for Cultural Competence, will discuss the findings of a recent year-long project of the center focused on mentoring. She will further explore the implications of mentoring—one aspect of supporting student and faculty diversity with proven efficacy in the literature—for UMMS health professions training programs.
Sponsored by the Center for Health Equity Intervention Research and the Office of Faculty Affairs, the program will take place on Thursday, June 6 from noon to 1:30 p.m. in the Albert Sherman Center, Room AS9-2072, with lunch available at 11:30 a.m. RSVP to Lillian.figueroa@umassmed.edu.
