our past, present, and future

The Doctors Hospital Family Medicine Residency has been present for approximately 40 years and is affiliated with OhioHealth Doctors Hospital, which has served as a large osteopathic training site for several residency and fellowship programs.

As our city and community grows, we also challenge ourselves to grow and better understand any barriers we can remove for our patients. We want to be inclusive of every individual that walks into our door, and so we have emphasized diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) in our policies, didactics and case presentations. We are fortunate to work for a healthcare organization that has emphasized inclusion as a key value in our mission to serve our community. We have incorporated implicit bias training into our didactics and we are diversifying our healthcare disparities lectures. Though we feel we have made many changes in our curriculum, we know that there is always going to be room to grow and learn from each other.

Diversity, Equity & Inclusion CUrriculum

This is a lecture series that evolves to match the needs of the community as well as allow for fluid communication among residents and faculty.

  • Topics for AY 23-24 include:

    • Impicit Bias: Identification and Mitigation in the Healthcare

    • Substance Use Disorders: Addressing Social Stigma

    • Access to Medications: Tips from from Central Ohio’s Charitable Pharmacy

    • Sexism in Medicine

    • Breaking Down “isms”: Use of Inclusive/Unbiased Language

    • Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Services in Healthcare

    • Supporting LGBTQ+ Patients

These presentations are immediately followed by a debriefing session to allow residents and faculty to determine actionable steps to be taken in the residency curriculum and in office operations to serve our community more inclusively. For example, based on a presentation in AY 21-22, action was taken to build a sexual health series to educate residents and faculty alike on care for patients with Hepatitis C, updates in PrEP/HIV education, counseling and gender affirming care.

Inclusion Champions

OhioHealth Graduate Medical Education Inclusion Champions are faculty and administrative leaders in residency programs who have accountabilities for advancing program specific DEI goals.

DHFM Inclusion Champions:

  • Tejal Patel, DO (She/Her)

  • Ashley Cremona-Simmons, DO (She/Her)

  • Alexandra McKenna, DO (She/Her)