Please join the CFPC’s Health Professional Educators Group in Family Medicine (HPEG-FM) on November 5, 2021, from 3pm-4pm ET for their annual community event titled ‘What's Missing in EDI Initiatives? Novel Approaches from the Racialized Resident Community’ presented by Dr. Shayna Henry and Dr. Anjali Menezes.

In 2020, Drs. Anjali and Henry co-founded the Racialized Residents at McMaster (RRAM) group with a focus on peer support for racialized residents, mentorship from racialized staff physicians, support for residents facing mistreatment due to race/ethnicity, and engagement in advocacy work, on behalf of racialized residents, with PGME at McMaster.

Join us for what we hope to be a thoughtful and thought-provoking event. Please forward this invitation broadly to colleagues who may be interested in attending This is a complimentary event.

LINK: https://cfpc.zoom.us/j/94895163397?pwd=QkQvRFd2UUJmWHBWWGF2STJoWGZUUT09

DETAILS: Friday, November 5, 2021, from 3pm-4pm

‘What's Missing in EDI Initiatives? Novel Approaches from the Racialized Resident Community’ presented by Dr. Shayna Henry and Dr. Anjali Menezes.

Are you interested in learning how to better support your racialized learners? Join us to learn how we created and structured a successful, innovative, and evidence-based support system for racialized residents during our training. 

Outline: 

1. Introduction to important terminology 
2. Our personal stories of racialization and how we became racialized persons 
3. Evaluation of how racialization can affect our ability to learn 
4. The creation of a closed, safe, supportive racialized resident group 
5. Measuring and evaluating the effectiveness of EDI initiatives
6. Future directions of how a focus on support can improve the racialized learner experience and help dismantle structural racism in medicine 

Presenters:

Dr. Shayna Henry

Dr. Shayna Henry completed her Honours BSc in Biology in 2012 followed by her MSc in Global Health in 2014, both at McMaster University. She went on to complete her MB BCh BAO in 2019 at University College Cork in Ireland, and recently completed her Family Medicine residency at McMaster in 2021. 

Dr. Anjali Menezes

Recent Family Medicine Residency graduate, Dr. Anjali Menezes is a current PGY3 in Academic Family Medicine resident at Western University. As a second-generation immigrant, with a master’s in clinical education, Dr. Anjali uses her positionality to study the impacts of racism and racialization on academic and career progression for diverse medical learners and physicians.