AMA Journal of Ethics

Clinicians’ assessments of laboring women’s clinical needs must be prioritized ethically and legally.

Aligning merit-based approaches with holistic approaches and equitable candidate evaluation can improve admissions processes, support learners, and improve patient care.

The Flexner Report marginalized schools that produce more than their fair share of physicians confronting inequities in US responses to COVID-19.

Failure to robustly integrate health equity content into health professions curricula leads to student frustration and missed opportunities.

A portrait illuminates a metaphor for maldistribution of burden of disease, risk exposure, and long-standing inequity in health laid bare to the world during the COVID-19 pandemic.

One health system’s development and validation of inequity measures across patient groups demonstrates an approach that could be nationally scalable.

Black women living with HIV contend with injuries of injustice that influence their reproductive lives.

Judgmentalism applied to patients from poor and marginalized communities exacerbates health inequity and illuminates the importance of contextualizing a patient’s care.

Would you question health decisions made by a 37-year old Black woman whose great-grandfather died in the US Public Health Service Syphilis Study at Tuskegee?

Institutional racism mediates structural racism and is embedded in institutional policies, clinical practice, health professional training, and biomedical research.