Students’ perceptions on race in medical education and healthcare

Guan Hui Tricia Lim; Zeluleko Sibanda; Joshua Erhabor; Soham Bandyopadhyay; The Neurology and Neurosurgery Interest Group

doi:10.1007/S40037-020-00645-6

Students’ perceptions on race in medical education and healthcare

Volume 10 (2021): Issue 2

By: Guan Hui Tricia Lim , Zeluleko Sibanda, Joshua Erhabor , Soham Bandyopadhyay and The Neurology and Neurosurgery Interest Group

Open Access

|Jan 2021

Abstract

Major racial disparities continue to exist in our healthcare education, from the underrepresentation of ethnic minorities when teaching about clinical signs to health management in primary and secondary care. A multi-centre group of students discuss what needs to change in medical education to cultivate physicians who are better prepared to care for patients of all backgrounds. We argue that the accurate portrayal of race in medical education is a vital step towards educating medical students to consider alternative explanations to biology when considering health inequities.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/S40037-020-00645-6 | Journal eISSN: 2212-277X

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Language: English

Page range: 130 - 134

Submitted on: Jul 12, 2020

Accepted on: Dec 16, 2020

Published on: Jan 7, 2021

Published by: Bohn Stafleu van Loghum

In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services

Publication frequency: 1 issue per year

Keywords:

Medical education,

Race,

Medical students,

Institutional racism

© 2021 Guan Hui Tricia Lim, Zeluleko Sibanda, Joshua Erhabor, Soham Bandyopadhyay, The Neurology and Neurosurgery Interest Group, published by Bohn Stafleu van Loghum
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

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