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AMP Mission
The mission of the Alliance of Minority Physicians (AMP) is to develop leaders in clinical, academic, and community medicine, through active recruitment, career development, mentorship, social engagement and community partnership geared towards underrepresented faculty, housestaff, and medical students at Penn Medicine, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP), and the Perelman School of Medicine. |
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Our History
On June 27, 2011, University of Pennsylvania President Amy Gutmann and Provost Vincent Price released Penn’s Action Plan for Faculty Diversity and Excellence. This landmark initiative sparked an unprecedented campus-wide effort to optimize diversity at Penn, redefining it as a critical pillar of an eminent institution. In the Fall of 2011, Dean Larry Jameson of the Perelman School of Medicine (PSOM) began a strategic planning process that included a Diversity and Inclusion Subcommittee. This group was tasked with the development of a plan to strengthen faculty diversity and inclusion throughout the entire Penn medicine community and in so doing amplify the agenda set forth by President Gutmann and Provost Price. At this time, Blacks and Hispanics comprised less than 5 percent of full time faculty at the PSOM. Realizing the gross underrepresentation of such groups, the plan also highlighted the importance of developing a strong pipeline of outstanding underrepresented in Medicine minorities (URiM) from medical students to housestaff and onto junior and ultimately senior faculty positions. The creation of multidisciplinary mentorship experiences and dynamic social and professional networks centered at the resident and fellow level were seen as the core means of creating the rich URiM community needed to truly support this effort. We aim to shape, sustain and grow a robust institutionalized system focused on the recruitment and retention of exceptional URiM clinicians, educators and physician scientists at Penn Medicine. As a result, Penn Med-CHOP Alliance of Minority Physicians (AMP) was born.
Historical Achievements
On June 27, 2011, University of Pennsylvania President Amy Gutmann and Provost Vincent Price released Penn’s Action Plan for Faculty Diversity and Excellence. This landmark initiative sparked an unprecedented campus-wide effort to optimize diversity at Penn, redefining it as a critical pillar of an eminent institution. In the Fall of 2011, Dean Larry Jameson of the Perelman School of Medicine (PSOM) began a strategic planning process that included a Diversity and Inclusion Subcommittee. This group was tasked with the development of a plan to strengthen faculty diversity and inclusion throughout the entire Penn medicine community and in so doing amplify the agenda set forth by President Gutmann and Provost Price. At this time, Blacks and Hispanics comprised less than 5 percent of full time faculty at the PSOM. Realizing the gross underrepresentation of such groups, the plan also highlighted the importance of developing a strong pipeline of outstanding underrepresented in Medicine minorities (URiM) from medical students to housestaff and onto junior and ultimately senior faculty positions. The creation of multidisciplinary mentorship experiences and dynamic social and professional networks centered at the resident and fellow level were seen as the core means of creating the rich URiM community needed to truly support this effort. We aim to shape, sustain and grow a robust institutionalized system focused on the recruitment and retention of exceptional URiM clinicians, educators and physician scientists at Penn Medicine. As a result, Penn Med-CHOP Alliance of Minority Physicians (AMP) was born.
Historical Achievements
- July 2012: 1st Annual Welcome and Orientation Event for new housestaff
- February 2013: Inaugural Reception to bring together the nearly 300 members of the Alliance of Minority Physicians
- May 2013: Awarded the University of Pennsylvania Provost Grant for Diversity Initiatives
- September 2013: Mentoring Families created to bring together the 170 faculty, housestaff, and medical student participants into 12 mentoring groups named after historical minority figures influential in healthcare
- December 2022: AMP awarded a $250,000 grant from Independence Blue Cross Foundation to expand programming to URiM medical students across Philadelphia and launch Pathways to Excellence in Medicine
- April 2023: AMP, Penn Medicine, & CHOP awarded the Student National Medical Association's "Leadership in Institutional Diversity" Award