As one of us (R.S.) wrote in a recent Academic Medicine commentary, structural racism is pervasive in academic medicine, and institutions need to take bold action. Schools must implement comprehensive anti-racist policies and practices across all lines, from curricular reform, to promotion of diversity and inclusion at all levels, to building systems of accountability. Such …
Continue reading Dismantling Structural Racism: Time to Abandon Medical School Rankings
In our Academic Medicine article,1 we discuss how medical curricula perpetuate inequity by describing racial differences as matters of scientific fact. As medical students, we have seen lectures demonstrating biological differences rooted in race—a social construct—including that Black people have increased risk for developing glaucoma.1 We have seen race used in medical curricula to teach …
Continue reading To Improve Medical Education, We Must First Confront Our Field’s History
On the Academic Medicine Podcast, hosts Toni Gallo and Research in Medical Education (RIME) Committee chair Dr. Zareen Zaidi talk to guests Drs. Justin Bullock and Joseph Mpalirwa about their research on the experiences of underrepresented medical students and physicians in the United States and Canada. This is the final episode in a 3-part series …
Continue reading Underrepresented Students’ and Physicians’ Experiences in Medicine
On the Academic Medicine Podcast, hosts Toni Gallo and assistant editor Dr. Dorene Balmer (@dorenebalmer) and guests medical students Bri Christophers (@BriChristophers) and Naomi Nkinsi (@NNkinsi) discuss how race is portrayed in medical education and what individuals and institutions should do to address racism in the curriculum and learning environment. This episode is now available …
Continue reading Addressing Race and Racism in Medical Education
Academic Medicine is committed to assisting medical schools and teaching hospitals, their faculty and trainees, and the public in learning more about complex issues and strategies to acknowledge, repair, and transcend racism to make academic medicine not only more inclusive and diverse but also more focused on a vision of human mutuality. To this end, …
Continue reading New Collection of Articles on Addressing Race and Racism in Medical Education
