The Department of Emergency Medicine strongly encourages applications from minority candidates who are under-represented in our specialty, including women, racial and ethnic minorities, and LGBTQ students. |
Information for Minority Candidates
The Department of Emergency Medicine is striving to create and maintain a provider population that mirrors our diverse patient population. We believe that a diverse faculty, workforce, and student body is essential to our long-term success in academic medicine. We embrace all types of diversity as strengths.
Northwestern University- Feinberg School of Medicine, Office of Diversity
 | Sunshine “Sunny” Gibson, MSW |
The Feinberg Office of Diversity works with students, residents, staff and faculty to further our mission of achieving a campus environment of belonging and inclusion for all. Recruitment initiatives, community partnerships, and campus collaborations all help facilitate our mission. Please let us know if you are interested in meeting with Sunny Gibson or any representatives from the Office of Diversity, as we may be able to arrange a visit with their office in the late afternoon (after your interviews are completed).
Emergency Medicine Diversity Contacts
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Larry Faines, MD Director, Diversity Initiatives | Danielle McGee, MD Attending Faculty, NU EM ‘08 | Eunice Park, MD PGY IV Resident | Adriana Segura, MD |
Information on Diversity Initiatives
Northwestern McGaw Underrepresented Residents & Fellows Forum (NMURFF)
Northwestern McGaw Underrepresented Residents and Fellows Forum (NMURFF) is an inter-departmental group for trainees at Northwestern McGaw Center for Graduate Medical Education. The NMURFF leadership consists of residents and/or fellows who carry out programming in four areas: mentoring, networking & career development, outreach, and strategy & collaboration. NMURFF welcomes members of all backgrounds who support our mission. Our work centers on diversity and representation and is focused on (but not limited to) race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation.
For more information, please visit:
http://www.feinberg.northwestern.edu/residents/residencies/nmurff.html
Northwestern Chicago Out Network
We are pleased to introduce a campus- and affiliate-wide networking group for LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender) identified individuals and allies. The group began several years ago informally meeting after work and quickly became a regular social networking group for the support and encouragement of LGBT faculty, staff, students, fellows, and residents on the Northwestern Chicago campus. It currently draws participants from the medical school, graduate school, affiliated hospitals and clinics. Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Northwestern Medical Faculty Foundation, Northwestern University, and Children's Memorial Hospital are pleased to offer formal support of the group's quarterly meetings, now called the Northwestern Chicago Out Network. It is our collective hope that providing a sponsorship for faculty, staff, and students who identify as LGBT or allies will ensure that our campus and affiliates have welcoming and inclusive environments.
For more information, please visit:
http://www.feinberg.northwestern.edu/diversity/partnerships/network.html
Spanish Courses
The Office of Diversity is pleased to offer Spanish language classes at four levels, in partnership with Northwestern Memorial Hospital and the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico (UNAM) Chicago extension. Classes are open to health professions graduate students at Feinberg (MD, MPH, MA, PhD, DPT) as well as faculty and staff, and to employees from Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Northwestern Memorial Faculty Foundation, Northwestern Medicine Physicians Group, and all entities eligible through NM Academy. Individuals already fluent in Spanish may obtain a formal comprehensive proficiency evaluation from UNAM.
For more information, please visit:
http://www.feinberg.northwestern.edu/diversity/programs/spanish.html
