Teaching Anti-Racism in the Clinical Environment: The Five-Minute Moment for Racial Justice in Healthcare

Samantha X Y Wang; Kevin Chi; Megha Shankar; Sonoo Thadaney Israni; Abraham Verghese; Donna M Zulman

doi:10.1016/j.amjmed.2022.12.014

Teaching Anti-Racism in the Clinical Environment: The Five-Minute Moment for Racial Justice in Healthcare

Am J Med. 2023 Apr;136(4):345-349. doi: 10.1016/j.amjmed.2022.12.014. Epub 2022 Dec 22.

Authors

Samantha X Y Wang¹, Kevin Chi², Megha Shankar³, Sonoo Thadaney Israni⁴, Abraham Verghese⁴, Donna M Zulman⁵

Affiliations

¹ Department of Medicine, Stanford University, Calif. Electronic address: wangxy@stanford.edu.
² Department of Pediatrics, Stanford University, Calif.
³ Division of General Internal Medicine, University of California San Diego.
⁴ Department of Medicine, Stanford University, Calif.
⁵ Division of Primary Care and Population Health, Stanford University School of Medicine, Calif.

PMID: 36566895
DOI: 10.1016/j.amjmed.2022.12.014

Abstract

Dismantling racism in health care demands that medical education promote racial justice throughout all stages of medical training. However, racial bias can be fostered unintentionally, influencing the way we make decisions as clinicians with downstream effects on patient health and health equity. The development of any anti-racism curriculum in medicine requires the ability to identify racial bias in practices we have not previously recognized as explicitly racist or unjust. This has limited the creation and delivery of effective anti-racism education in health care.

Keywords: Anti-racism; Clinical decision-making; Medical education.

Publication types

Review

MeSH terms

Antiracism
Delivery of Health Care
Education, Medical*
Humans
Racism*
Social Justice