AMA Journal of Ethics^®

Traditional models of medical education in the US do not teach students to problematize segregation where they train and help care for patients. 

Adriana Pero joins Ethics Talk to discuss her article, coauthored with Emily L. Xu: “Is It Reasonable to Expect Students and Trainees to Internalize Equity as a Core Professional Value When Teaching and Learning Occurs in Segregated Settings?”

Training in a segregated health care system means that health professions students and trainees learn bias and experience helplessness and burnout.

Harriet A. Washington joins Ethics Talk to discuss her article: “How Does Racial Segregation Taint Medical Pedagogy?”

Unchallenged supra-geographic segregation perpetuates racial medical mythology, exacerbates myopia in health professions practice and education, and perpetuates injustice.

Dr Emily Cleveland Manchanda joins Ethics Talk to discuss her article, coauthored with Dr Karthik Sivashanker, Steffie Kinglake, Emily Laflamme, Dr Vikas Saini, and Dr Aletha Maybank: “Training to Build Antiracist, Equitable Health Care Systems.”

Increased awareness of conscious and unconscious biases and structural drivers of health can increase the likelihood of upstander interventions.

Clinical needs of patients with disabilities are seen with the “medical gaze,” a depersonalized lens of evidence-based medicine and of presumed objectivity.

Ruhee Shah joins Ethics Talk to discuss her article, coauthored with Lindsay Clark, Terence M. Hughes, Ashesh Trivedi, and Dr Leona Hess: “Medical Student-Driven Efforts to Incorporate Segregated Care Education Into Their Curriculum.”

Dr Emily Shearer joins Ethics Talk to discuss her article, coauthored with Dr Jay Baruch: "Decision Aids, Doorknob Moments, and Physician-Patient Solidarity in EDs.”