Bassett Medical Center, Cooperstown, NY Partnerships for Developing Strategy and Curriculum in Disparities

Bassett’s first CLER visit in February 2015 demonstrated that while we had a number of programs dedicated to helping underserved segments of our population in rural, upstate New York, we did not have an overall strategy to assess healthcare delivery to diverse parts of our population. We also did not have an educational program to expose resident physicians to the diverse parts of our population. Our project goals were to develop an institutional strategy for understanding and addressing the diverse population Bassett serves and to develop a curriculum in disparities for our GME programs