The University of Minnesota Medical School is dedicated to providing excellence across our mission - high-quality education for students of all backgrounds; innovative and cutting-edge research and exceptional clinical outcomes that promote health equity. Through a variety of services and programs, we aim to engage everyone in our collective work toward inclusive excellence, promote equity in access to learning, scientific inquiry, care delivery, and celebrate our diversity through cultural experiences and opportunities on and off campus.
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Through a variety of services and programs, we aim to engage everyone in our collective work toward inclusive excellence, promote equity in access to learning, scientific inquiry, care delivery, and celebrate our diversity through cultural experiences and opportunities on and off campus.
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We aspire to be a learning culture where we can have conversations and learn from each other. Contact us with feedback, questions, concerns or ideas.
Led by Vice Dean Ana Núñez, MD, FACP, our office collaborates with all members of our medical school community, university and communities at large. We work to uplift and celebrate varied ideas, traditions and customs; encourage conversation inclusive of everyone’s voices and work to promote our missions - training next generation physicians, innovating and providing solutions to medical illness and optimizing healthcare delivery for all Minnesotan communities.
We work together with our community members- in their classrooms, offices, laboratories, centers and partnerships to help our faculty, staff, students, trainees and community partners find ways to work together and improve the impact of our missions. Practical, relevant, engagement and impactful are our collaborative principles. Have some ideas? Reach out to us to chat!
Hear from students on why they chose the U of M and why our alumni chose to pursue medicine.
Mary Owen, MD, assistant professor of family medicine & biobehavioral health & director the Center of American Indian and Minority Health, was appointed as the Medical School’s inaugural Associate Dean for Native Health. Dr. Owen will lead work to advance health & medical education for those with indigenous heritage on the Twin Cities and Duluth Campuses, and will serve on the Duluth Campus leadership team.
For decades, doctors nationwide have used two different calculations to measure kidney health: One for Black patients, and one for non-Black patients. M Health Fairview will no longer follow this practice. Read more.
The American Board of Orthopedic Surgery chooses one article as required reading for the Web-Based Longitudinal Assessment taken by thousands of orthopedists every year. This year, an article by Department Head Dr. Clohisy was chosen - Leadership, Communication, and Negotiation Across a Diverse Workforce*: An AOA Critical Issues Symposium.
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