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.
AMA J Ethics. 2021; 23(12):E919-925. doi:
10.1001/amajethics.2021.919.
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.
Countering the prevailing thought that more medical testing and treatment is always better can be achieved by creating a forum for open discussion of costs and value to prevent patient harm from overuse.
AMA J Ethics. 2015; 17(11):1079-1081. doi:
10.1001/journalofethics.2015.17.11.mnar1-1511.
Drs Jewel Mullen and David Henderson break down myths of “merit-based” admissions and explore how we should pursue diversity and inclusion as key educational and professional priorities in medicine.
Dr Matthew K. Wynia joins Ethics Talk to discuss his article, coauthored with Dr Robert Baker: “Living Histories of Structural Racism and Organized Medicine”