Mark C. Henderson, MD, Charlene Green, PsyD, and Candice Chen, MD, MPH
Focus on diversity is critical, yet most US schools have failed to achieve racial-ethnic or economic diversity representative of the general US population.
AMA J Ethics. 2021;23(12):E965-974. doi:
10.1001/amajethics.2021.965.
Deficit-focused interventions undermine appreciation of the value students and physicians with minoritized identities bring to medicine’s capacity to motivate equity.
AMA J Ethics. 2021;23(12):E975-980. doi:
10.1001/amajethics.2021.975.
Lydia Smeltz, Susan M. Havercamp, PhD, and Lisa Meeks, PhD, MA
Lack of disability-competent health care contributes to inequitable health outcomes for persons with disabilities, the largest minoritized population in the world.
AMA J Ethics. 2024;26(1):E54-61. doi:
10.1001/amajethics.2024.54.
Alexandre White, PhD and Jeremy A. Greene, MD, PhD
Teaching and learning patient advocacy in academic health centers requires critical engagement with social, political, historical, and cultural conceptions of racial difference.
AMA J Ethics. 2024;26(1):E62-67. doi:
10.1001/amajethics.2024.62.
S. Michelle Ogunwole, MD, PhD and Francheska D. Starks, PhD
Testimonial injustice is an expression of racism that uses identity to undermine individuals’ credibility as authoritative “knowers” of their own bodies, selves, and experiences.
AMA J Ethics. 2024;26(1):E72-83. doi:
10.1001/amajethics.2024.72.
Dr Jennifer Randall joins Ethics Talk to discuss her article, coauthored with Dr Tasha R. Wyatt: “Centering Justice in Health Professions Education by Owning Limitations of Anti-Bias Checklists.”
Lydia Smeltz joins Ethics Talk to discuss her article, coauthored with Drs Susan M. Havercamp and Lisa Meeks: “Aspiring to Disability Consciousness in Health Professions Training.”