In 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. UPHS and CHOP leadership put forth a plan that highlighted the importance of developing a strong pipeline of outstanding underrepresented minorities (URM) 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 URM community needed to truly support this effort. As a means of shaping, sustaining and growing a robust institutionalized system focused on the recruitment and retention of exceptional URM clinicians, educators and physician scientists at Penn medicine, the UPHS-CHOP Alliance of Minority Physicians (AMP) was born.

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