Racism impacts all aspects of academic medicine, from inequitable medical school admissions policies to inadequate care of patients of color. A new framework outlines concrete steps the AAMC will take to address structural racism across all fronts.
AAMCNews sat down with @Malika Fair, MD, MPH, an emergency physician and the AAMC's senior director of health equity partnerships and programs, and Clarence Fluker, the AAMC's director of community engagement, to talk about the impact of structural racism on providers and patients within academic medicine; why the time has come to address centuries of injustice; and what steps individuals, the AAMC, and academic medical institutions can take to become anti-racist. Read the article here.
Also newly published, please see today's USA Today op-ed by @David Skorton in which he discusses how diversity training for health care workers can save patients' lives.
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Stephanie Weiner
Director, Digital Strategy & Engagement
Association of American Medical Colleges
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