The Current State of Efforts to Address Disparities, Racism and Cultural Humility in Medical Education

by Ross E. McKinney, Norma Poll-Hunter and Lisa D. Howley The following blog is an editorial found in the latest issue of American Journal of Bioethics. You can find it here: https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/uajb20/21/9?nav=tocList Racism is a complex problem in the US that is institutionalized, personally mediated, and internalized (Jones 2000). Within medical education the recognition and response to structural racism is beginning to take shape in response to COVID-19 and recognition of the nature of anti-Black public acts. The verity of structural racism as a major cause of health-related disparities is clear, as is the need for a framework for understanding and informing medical education to address the problem.…
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