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Antiracism, Diversity, and Inclusion in Medicine: Medical School Curricula Resources

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This Medical Curricula Resources tab in the Antiracism, Diversity, and Inclusion in Medicine LibGuide was created by faculty and staff in the Samuel J. Wood Library at Weill Cornell Medicine.

 

This section is not a comprehensive list of all available resources, but is meant to introduce the Weill Cornell Medicine community to the topic. The list includes scholarly articles and web resources.

 

The Antiracism, Diversity, and Inclusion in Medicine LibGuide will continue to be updated. If you have suggestions for additional resources, please contact library-adi-team@med.cornell.edu.

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Recent Scholarly Articles on Antiracism, Racial Inequalities, and Implicit Bias in Medical School Curricula

Gwayi-Chore, M. C., Del Villar, E. L., Fraire, L. C., Waters, C., Andrasik, M. P., Pfeiffer, J., Slyker, J., Mello, S. P., Barnabas, R., Moise, E., & Heffron, R. (2021). "Being a Person of Color in This Institution Is Exhausting": Defining and Optimizing the Learning Climate to Support Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at the University of Washington School of Public Health. Frontiers in public health9, 642477. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2021.642477

 

Williams, K. E., Baskin, M. L., Brito, A. L., Bae, S., & Willett, L. L. (2021). Supporting Trainees by Addressing Inappropriate Behaviors by Patients. Southern medical journal114(2), 111–115. https://doi.org/10.14423/SMJ.0000000000001205

 

Balhara, K. S., & Irvin, N. (2020). A Community Mural Tour: Facilitating Experiential Learning About Social Determinants of Health. The western journal of emergency medicine22(1), 60–62. https://doi.org/10.5811/westjem.2020.9.48738

 

Jefferies K. (2020). The Strong Black Woman: Insights and Implications for NursingJournal of the American Psychiatric Nurses Association, 1078390320983900. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1177/1078390320983900

 

Ross, P. T., Lypson, M. L., Byington, C. L., Sánchez, J. P., Wong, B. M., & Kumagai, A. K. (2020). Learning From the Past and Working in the Present to Create an Antiracist Future for Academic MedicineAcademic medicine : journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges95(12), 1781–1786. https://doi.org/10.1097/ACM.0000000000003756

 

Godley, B. A., Dayal, D., Manekin, E., & Estroff, S. E. (2020). Toward an Anti-Racist Curriculum: Incorporating Art into Medical Education to Improve Empathy and Structural Competency. Journal of medical education and curricular development7, 2382120520965246. https://doi.org/10.1177/2382120520965246

 

Bell, B. (2020). White dominance in nursing education: A target for anti‐racist efforts. Nursing Inquiry, Nursing inquiry, 2020-09-03. Check availability.

 

Crear-Perry, Joia, Maybank, Aletha, Keeys, Mia, Mitchell, Nia, & Godbolt, Dawn. (2020). Moving towards anti-racist praxis in medicine. The Lancet (British Edition), 396(10249), 451-453.

 

Vass, Alyssa, & Adams, Karen. (2020). Educator perceptions on teaching Indigenous health: Racism, privilege and self‐reflexivity. Medical Education, Medical education, 2020-08-09.

 

Sotto-Santiago, Sylk, Mac, Jacqueline, Duncan, Francesca, & Smith, Joseph. (2020). “I Didn't Know What to Say”: Responding to Racism, Discrimination, and Microaggressions With the OWTFD Approach. MedEdPORTAL, 16(1), 10971.

 

Acholonu, Rhonda Graves, Cook, Tiffany E, Roswell, Robert O, & Greene, Richard E. (2020). Interrupting Microaggressions in Health Care Settings: A Guide for Teaching Medical Students. MedEdPORTAL, 16(1), 10969.

 

Paradis, Elise, MA, PhD, Nimmon, Laura, Wondimagegn, Dawit, Whitehead, Cynthia & MD, PhD. (2020). Critical Theory: Broadening Our Thinking to Explore the Structural Factors at Play in Health Professions Education. Academic Medicine, 95, 842-845. https://doi.org/10.1097/ACM.0000000000003108

 

Frye, V., Camacho-Rivera, M., Salas-Ramirez, K., Albritton, T., Deen, D., Sohler, N., . . . Nunes, J. (2020). Professionalism: The Wrong Tool to Solve the Right Problem?. Academic Medicine., 95(6), 860-863.

 

Hagiwara, N., Kron, F., Scerbo, M., & Watson, G. (2020). A call for grounding implicit bias training in clinical and translational frameworks. Lancet., 395(10234), 1457-1460.

 

Lokugamage, A., Ahillan, T., & Pathberiya, S. (2020). Decolonising ideas of healing in medical education. Journal of Medical Ethics., 46(4), 265-272.

 

Manzi, J., Casapulla, S., Kropf, K., Baker, B., Biechler, M., Finch, T., . . . Randolph, C. (published online ahead of print, 2020). Responding to Racism in the Clinical Setting: A Novel Use of Forum Theatre in Social Medicine Education. Journal of Medical Humanities.

 

Nieblas-Bedolla, E., Christophers, B., Nkinsi, N., Schumann, P., & Stein, E. (published online ahead of print, 2020). Changing How Race Is Portrayed in Medical Education: Recommendations From Medical Students. Academic Medicine, doi:10.1097/ACM.0000000000003496

 

 

Sukhera, J., Watling, C., & Gonzalez, C. (2020). Implicit Bias in Health Professions: From Recognition to Transformation. Academic Medicine., 95(5), 717-723.

 

Adelekun, A., Beltrán, S., Carney, J., Lett, L., Orji, W., Rider-Longmaid, E., . . . Aysola, J. (2019). Recognizing Racism in Medicine: A Student-Organized and Community-Engaged Health Professional Conference. Health Equity., 3(1), 395-402.

 

Caruso Brown, A., Hobart, T., Botash, A., & Germain, L. (2019). Can a checklist ameliorate implicit bias in medical education? Medical Education., 53(5), 510.

 

Chowkwanyun, M., & Howell, B. (2019). Health, Social Reform, and Medical Schools - The Training of American Physicians and the Dissenting Tradition. The New England Journal of Medicine., 381(19), 1870-1875.

 

Guh, J., Harris, C., Martinez, P., Chen, F., & Gianutsos, L. (2019). Antiracism in Residency: A Multimethod Intervention to Increase Racial Diversity in a Community-Based Residency Program. Family Medicine., 51(1), 37-40.

 

Salhi, B., Tsai, J., Druck, J., Ward-Gaines, J., White, M., & Lopez, B. (2019). Toward Structural Competency in Emergency Medical Education. AEM Education and Training., 4(Suppl 1), S88-S97.

 

Gonzalez, C., Deno, M., Kintzer, E., Marantz, P., Lypson, M., & McKee, M. (2018). Patient perspectives on racial and ethnic implicit bias in clinical encounters: Implications for curriculum development. Patient Education and Counseling., 101(9), 1669-1675.

 

Merritt, R., & Rougas, S. (2018). Multidisciplinary approach to structural competency teaching. Medical Education., 52(11), 1191-1192.

 

Morris, J., Cribb Fabersunne, C., Scott, N., & Saldaña, F. (2018). Teaching to undo structural racism. Medical Education., 52(5), 552-553.

 

Olsen LD. The Conscripted Curriculum and the Reproduction of Racial Inequalities in Contemporary U.S. Medical Education. J Health Soc Behav. 2019;60(1):55-68. doi:10.1177/0022146518821388

 

Olsen, L. D. (2019). The Conscripted Curriculum and the Reproduction of Racial Inequalities in Contemporary U.S. Medical Education. Journal of Health and Social Behavior, 60(1), 55-68.

 

Bright, H., & Nokes, K. (2019). Impact of a Discussion Series on Race on Medical Student Perceptions of Bias in Health Care. PRiMER: Peer-review Reports in Medical Education Research., 3, 29.

 

Dennis, S., Gold, R., & Wen, F. (2019). Learner Reactions to Activities Exploring Racism as a Social Determinant of Health. Family Medicine., 51(1), 41-47.

 

Krishnan, A., Rabinowitz, M., Ziminsky, A., Scott, S., & Chretien, K. (2019). Addressing Race, Culture, and Structural Inequality in Medical Education: A Guide for Revising Teaching Cases. Academic Medicine., 94(4), 550-555.

 

Motzkus, C., Wells, R., Wang, X., Chimienti, S., Plummer, D., Sabin, J., . . . Cashman, S. (2019). Pre-clinical medical student reflections on implicit bias: Implications for learning and teaching. PloS One., 14(11), E0225058.

 

Wu, Diana, Saint-Hilaire, Lamercie, Pineda, Andrew, Hessler, Danielle, Saba, George W, Salazar, René, & Olayiwola, Nwando. (2019). The Efficacy of an Antioppression Curriculum for Health Professionals. Family Medicine, 51(1), 22-30.

 

Gonzalez, Cristina M, Garba, Ramya J, Liguori, Alyssa, Marantz, Paul R, McKee, M Diane, & Lypson, Monica L. (2018). How to Make or Break Implicit Bias Instruction: Implications for Curriculum Development. Academic Medicine, 93(11S Association of American Medical Colleges Learn Serve Lead: Proceedings of the 57th Annual Research in Medical Education Sessions), S74-S81.

 

Hardeman, R., Burgess, D., Murphy, K., Satin, D., Nielsen, J., Potter, T., . . . Cunningham, B. (2018). Developing a Medical School Curriculum on Racism: Multidisciplinary, Multiracial Conversations Informed by Public Health Critical Race Praxis (PHCRP). Ethnicity & Disease., 28(Suppl 1), 271-278.

 

White-Davis, Tanya, Edgoose, Jennifer, Brown Speights, Joedrecka S, Fraser, Kathryn, Ring, Jeffrey M, Guh, Jessica, & Saba, George W. (2018). Addressing Racism in Medical Education An Interactive Training Module. Family Medicine, 50(5), 364-368.

 

Worden, M., & Ait-Daoud Tiouririne, N. (2018). Cultural competence and curricular design: Learning the hard way. Perspectives on Medical Education., 7(Suppl 1), 8-11.

 

Ahmad, N Jia, & Shi, Marc. (2017). The Need for Anti-Racism Training in Medical School Curricula. Academic Medicine, 92(8), 1073.

 

Braun, L., & Saunders, B. (2017). Avoiding Racial Essentialism in Medical Science Curricula. AMA Journal of Ethics., 19(6), 518-527.

 

Braun, L. (2017). Theorizing Race and Racism: Preliminary Reflections on the Medical Curriculum. American Journal of Law & Medicine., 43(2-3), 239-256.

 

Burke, S., Dovidio, J., Perry, S., Burgess, D., Hardeman, R., Phelan, S., . . . Van Ryn, M. (2018). Informal Training Experiences and Explicit Bias Against African Americans among Medical Students. Social Psychology Quarterly., 80(1), 65-84.

 

Metzl, J., & Petty, J. (2017). Integrating and Assessing Structural Competency in an Innovative Prehealth Curriculum at Vanderbilt University. Academic Medicine., 92(3), 354-359.

 

Sharma, M., & Kuper, A. (2017). The elephant in the room: Talking race in medical education. Advances in Health Sciences Education., 22(3), 761-764.

 

Wear, Delese, Zarconi, Joseph, Aultman, Julie M, Chyatte, Michelle R, & Kumagai, Arno K. (2017). Remembering Freddie Gray: Medical Education for Social Justice. Academic Medicine, 92(3), 312-317.

 

White III, Augustus A, Logghe, Heather J, Goodenough, Dan A, Barnes, Linda L, Hallward, Anne, Allen, Irving M, . . . Llerena-Quinn, Roxana. (2018). Self-Awareness and Cultural Identity as an Effort to Reduce Bias in Medicine. Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities, 5(1), 34-49.

Antiracism Curricula Resources

 

AAMC MedEd Portal: Anti-racism in Medicine Collection: 

https://www.mededportal.org/anti-racism

 

This collection contains examples of curricula on topics including health disparities, intersectionality, implicit bias, microaggressions, structural competency, and childhood trauma.

 

 

 

American Association for the History of Medicine. Syllabus: A History of Anti-Black Racism in Medicine.

 

A 16-week syllabus that "...offers insight into...historical legacies, while simultaneously paving way for equitable health for all underrepresented populations."