{"id":40431,"date":"2026-04-28T12:03:44","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T16:03:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/graduate-medical-education\/?page_id=40431"},"modified":"2026-10-19T15:27:31","modified_gmt":"2026-10-19T19:27:31","slug":"commitment-to-diversity","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/graduate-medical-education\/waterbury-general-surgery-residency-program\/commitment-to-diversity\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Commitment to Diversity"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"pl-40431\"  class=\"panel-layout\" ><div id=\"pg-40431-0\"  class=\"panel-grid panel-no-style\" ><div id=\"pgc-40431-0-0\"  class=\"panel-grid-cell\" ><div id=\"panel-40431-0-0-0\" class=\"so-panel widget widget_black-studio-tinymce widget_black_studio_tinymce panel-first-child panel-last-child\" data-index=\"0\" ><div class=\"textwidget\"><p><strong>The Program\u2019s approach to promote diversity through resident recruitment remains successful.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The program has been able to recruit US and foreign graduates from every continent except Australia and individuals of a range of ethnic, religious, and cultural backgrounds. A number of residents in the program are from ethnic, gender and social groups underrepresented in surgery. We aspire to create an environment in which all members are treated equally and all opinions and views are respected.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/graduate-medical-education\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2026\/10\/diversity.png\" alt=\"Waterbury Surgery Diversity\" width=\"494\" height=\"494\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-40436\" srcset=\"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/graduate-medical-education\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2026\/10\/diversity.png 494w, https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/graduate-medical-education\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2026\/10\/diversity-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/graduate-medical-education\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2026\/10\/diversity-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 494px) 100vw, 494px\" \/><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Program\u2019s approach to promote diversity through resident recruitment remains successful. The program has been able to recruit US and foreign graduates from every continent except Australia and individuals of a range of ethnic, religious, and cultural backgrounds. A number of residents in the program are from ethnic, gender and social groups underrepresented in surgery. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5287,"featured_media":0,"parent":38352,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-40431","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-11-04 08:26:42","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/graduate-medical-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/40431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/graduate-medical-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/graduate-medical-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/graduate-medical-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5287"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/graduate-medical-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40431"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/graduate-medical-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/40431\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40437,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/graduate-medical-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/40431\/revisions\/40437"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/graduate-medical-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/38352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/graduate-medical-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}