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Practical Lessons for Teaching About Race and Racism: Successfully Leading Free, Frank, and Fearless Discussions
- Source :
- Academic Medicine. 95:S139-S144
- Publication Year :
- 2020
- Publisher :
- Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health), 2020.
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Abstract
- Successfully teaching about race and racism requires a careful balance of emotional safety and honest truth-telling. Creating such environments where all learners can thrive and grow together is a challenge, but a consistently doable one. This article describes 12 lessons learned within 4 main themes: ground rules; language and communication; concepts of social constructs, intersectionality, and bidirectional biases; and structural racism, solutions, and advocacy. The authors' recommendations for how to successfully teach health professions students about race and racism come from their collective experience of over 60 years of instruction, research, and practice. Proficiency in discussing race and addressing racism will become increasingly relevant as health care institutions strive to address the social needs of patients (e.g., food insecurity, housing instability) that contribute to poor health and are largely driven by structural inequities. Having interprofessional team-based care, with teams better able to understand and counteract their own biases, will be critical to addressing the social and structural determinants of health for marginalized patients. Recognizing that implicit biases about race impact both patients and health professions students from underrepresented racial/ethnic backgrounds is a critical step toward building robust curricula about race and health equity that will improve the learning environment for trainees and reduce health disparities.
- Subjects :
- Intersectionality
020205 medical informatics
business.industry
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Learning environment
02 engineering and technology
General Medicine
Public relations
Social constructionism
Race and health
Racism
Health equity
Education
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
Health care
0202 electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
030212 general & internal medicine
Social determinants of health
Sociology
business
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Details
- ISSN :
- 10402446
- Volume :
- 95
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Academic Medicine
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........0e56856332771ae0b49d94d099c72f34