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Harvard Medical School revamps diversity recruitment effort started by late Dr. Alvin Poussaint

The dean also said the program pioneered more than 50 years ago Dr. Alvin Poussaint, photographed in his office in the Judge Baker Children's Center in 2004. Pat Greenhouse/Globe Staff Advertisement The website for the Office for Recruitment and Minority Affairs A brief note on the site says is it being 'updated.' 'This page is in the process of being updated to reflect the evolving work of our offices and programs,' the page says. 'Our medical education web presence will be hosted on a new platform by the fall of 2025, and in anticipation of this change, we are creating new content and improving the usability of our site. Please stay tuned.' The actions Advertisement The Office for Recruitment and Minority Affairs, or ORMA 'has focused on the recruitment and support of medical students who are from groups historically underrepresented in medicine (URiM) and those who identify as LGBTQ,' the office posted in 2022. Daley said ORMA's duties will be handled by the Office of Student Affairs although there was no explicit mention of recruiting from the communities ORMA once focused on. 'The two main aims will be to: 1) provide support to individual students who seek out additional help in order to thrive within our HMS ecosystem and 2) bring together the collective medical student community by encouraging and providing spaces for students to convene to have dialogue across differences and learn from one another,' Daley wrote. 'It is important that we periodically revisit the principles and statements that guide our community and our values,' he added. Daley said a committee is being created 'comprising a cross section of our community' to review and recommend updates. 'Harvard Medical School is a community of thousands of learners, healers, researchers, and problem-solvers. We celebrate and nurture this complex interplay,' he wrote. 'We are also navigating in an ever-morphing environment that requires frequent adaptation.' According to the Harvard Crimson, Advertisement This is a developing story. John R. Ellement can be reached at