Prof. Dr. Jamiu Busari, Maastricht University

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Samenvatting
Creating a sustainable future in our medical profession is not just a need but a necessity. It demands making conscious and deliberate choices to be more diverse, inclusive, and fair, both in the way we select future doctors and in how we design our healthcare teams. A few key elements needed for this include: • Education and Training: Providing education that includes diverse perspectives, addresses social justice issues, and ensuredequitable opportunities for all aspiring specialists. This can be through inclusive curricula, mentorship, and scholarships. • Diverse Representation: Ensuring that people from various backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives are part of the field, both as healthcare providers and patients, helps make the profession more inclusive and relevant to everyone. • Accessible Care: Striving for equal access to health care for all populations, including underrepresented or underserved communities, ensures that everyone can receive quality treatment. • Cultural Competency: Training medical professionals in cultural competence to ensure that care is respectful and sensitive to patients’ cultural needs and differences. • Community Engagement: Build strong connections with the communities you serve, listen to their needs, and adapt care to be more inclusive and sustainable based on feedback from diverse groups. • Research & Innovation: Encouraging research that considers the needs of all demographics, including those that may be overlooked in standard studies, to foster innovation that benefits everyone. • Workforce Diversity: Ensuring a workforce that reflects the diversity of the population served by actively recruiting from underrepresented groups to create a more inclusive work environment and broaden perspectives within the profession.

Spreker
Associate professor of medical education at Maastricht University, adjunct professor at Ontario Tech University, Canada and visiting professor at the Health Business School, London. Jamiu is also a consultant pediatrician at Horacio Oduber Hospital (Aruba), a Certified Canadian Physician Executive, and a Harvard Macy Scholar. A former executive member of the Netherlands Association for Medical Education, he actively advocates for DEI and social justice, serving on Maastricht University’s Advisory Council on Diversity and Inclusion. Jamiu is associate editor for Clinical Medicine and Research and commissioning editor for BMJLeader. His clinical and educational contributions have earned him numerous honors, including the Educational Leadership Award (2015), Clinician of the Year (2015), International Residency Educator Award (2016), Jan Heijlman Prize for Best Teaching Specialist (2022), and an honorary fellowship from the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada (2023).