Mission

The Liaison Committee on Racial and Social Justice in Medical Education will work as a facilitator between administration, faculty, and students, to continuously develop a curriculum and environment that fosters anti-racist physicians. We aim to achieve this through regular check-ins with administration, constant collaboration with curriculum content developers, and open communication with students.

Vision

Our vision is for TUSOM to exemplify an institution that acknowledges its role in systemic racism, its privilege within the community, and its power in its ability to work towards anti-racist practices. We envision TUSOM prioritizing a personal and systemic anti-oppression curriculum, for both its faculty and students. We aim for TUSOM to demonstrate anti-racism practices with a similar fervor to its academic objectives, with the goals of creating an institutional environment and fostering future physicians rooted in racial and social justice.

Values

The Liaison Committee on Racial and Social Justice in Medical Education recognizes the importance of a structured education in race, power, and privilege, to combat engrained, structural oppression. Our values aim to be anti-racist, while concurrently acknowleding our personal privileges and systemic histories. We hope our work remains centered around intersectionality, community needs, and empowerment to those most marginalized.

Purpose

The purpose of the Liaison Committee on Racial and Social Justice in Medical Education is to be a student-led advisory sub-committee to the Curriculum Committee at-large. The goal of this committee is to work with the Curriculum Committee at-large, the administration, the faculty, and the students, to enhance education in racial and social justice across the curriculum.

Objectives

This committee aims to:

• Maintain accountability with TUSOM to ensure that all faculty and administration are personally and systemically working towards anti-oppressive practices, translating to progressive changes in school curriculum, policies, environment, and the student experience.
• Work with the TUSOM faculty and curriculum committee to ensure that all aspects of pre and post-clinical education are integrated with anti-racism content, curriculum, and training.
• Provide a student-led platform for students to identify issues of oversight amidst the school, faculty, administration, and this committee, as well as voice personal grievances of oppression a student may have.