CUSM strives to cultivate a culture in which everyone is valued in an environment of inclusive excellence, equity practice, and equitable support. Diversity is an integral part of the California University of Science and Medicine’s institutional identity as evidenced in the founding principles. This very early intent to create a historic medical school in southern California has arisen from tenets adopted by the inaugural leadership and begins with a deep commitment to the diversity of the student body, faculty, administration, and staff. Recognizing, nurturing latent merit, talent, values, and richness inherent in our diverse California culture and society, CUSM leadership acknowledged the acute need to remove barriers to the recruitment, retention, and advancement of historically excluded, underrepresented, and marginalized populations. This is being achieved through the CUSM mission to serve diverse, disadvantaged, and multicultural populations, and to meet the health needs of the people of the Inland Empire, the State of California, and the Nation. The innovative clinical presentation curriculum emphasizes public health, population health, global health, and affordable, accessible care for all. Educational excellence that truly incorporates diversity can promote mutual respect, equity practice skills, and manifest the full talents and abilities of all to better serve patients and to foster innovation and leadership. Training of culturally humble and structurally competent healthcare providers requires a multicultural milieu in which diversity, equity, and inclusion are deeply valued, encouraged, and integrated into all facets of the institution. This philosophy is at the core of CUSM, and it enriches the experiences gained by students while building values of altruism, activism, leadership, and social accountability in the globalized, pluralistic, complex, connected world of the 21st century.

To establish a school of medicine that inspires, motivates and empowers students to become excellent and caring physicians, scientists, and leaders, advance the art and science of medicine through research, improve the health of its community, shares innovative curriculum and advances best practices in medical education globally, and facilitates a medical education to promising disadvantaged students, especially from California and the Inland Empire.