Drs Pringl Miller, Preeti John, and Sabha Ganai join Ethics Talk to discuss their article: “How Should Surgical Palliative Success Be Defined?”

There are fewer Black men in US medical schools today than in 1970, although their contributions are key to building medicine’s capacity to equitably promote healing.

The US Supreme Court has allowed race-conscious admissions when a school’s purpose is to diversify an incoming class but not to remediate inequity.

Schools are permitted to construct URiM definitions, suggesting the importance of regarding them as fluid works in progress as US demographics evolve.

Focus on diversity is critical, yet most US schools have failed to achieve racial-ethnic or economic diversity representative of the general US population.

Deficit-focused interventions undermine appreciation of the value students and physicians with minoritized identities bring to medicine’s capacity to motivate equity.

Mistakes and lessons from AMA history situate the AMA now for antiracist leadership in the health care sector.

This watercolor self-portrait visually characterizes an irony faced by clinicians who are underrepresented minorities.

The AMA Code of Medical Ethics’ opinions related to co-creation of health care systems.

Co-creation in medical education requires an expansive health care learning system that challenges teacher-learner and theoretical-practical dichotomies.