"There is nothing inherently good about diversity."
In an unexpected statement at Medical Grand Rounds on January 21, Marc A. Nivet, Ed.D, MBA, Chief Diversity Officer of the Assocaition of American Medical Colleges, challenged the audience to disrupt their routine thinking about diversity and its role in advancing academic medicine.
"In fact, just look around at what's happening across the globe. When you force different people together, different cultures, different religions, different ethnicities, nothing good happens automatically," Nivet continued. To capitalize on differences, an institution needs a culture of inclusion to fuel the diversity and channel it in a positive direction.