Cultural Diversity and Anti-Racism: Faculty Development Resources - Intermediate

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Susan Cavanaugh MS, MPH and Marlowe Bogino MLIS from the CMSRU Library discuss institutional, structural, and systemic racism, aiming to explain these three forms of racism using examples from education, housing, and healthcare.”

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Dr. Kathryn Behling, MD, PhD at CMSRU, defines the terms race and genetic ancestry and why these terms, although sometimes used interchangeably, are not equivalent. Examples of the harmful use of race in medical algorithms are also discussed, and suggestions are provided on how to carefully consider race in medical education.

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Dr. Martin Job, PhD at CMSRU, describes how to become more comfortable discussing race in academic settings using the framework "Acknowledge, Understand, Act" and then provides strategies for classroom facilitation.

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NPR Public Health article that discusses the historical use of race as a correction factor in the estimated glomerular filtration calculator, the debate about removing this correction factor and concerns about how the removal could affect the care of black patients.

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Discusses the use of race in a variety of clinical calculators, in particular estimated glomerular filtration rate, and how this can disadvantage Black patients.

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Dictionary from the Vermont Department of Public Health provides definitions with approachable resources regarding health equity.

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Ways to combat unconscious bias in medical practice.

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A short article authored by McKenna Princing at UW Medicine that discusses microaggressions and ways to avoid perpetrating them.

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NPR Segment from Tell Me More that interviews Derald Sue a professor of psychology and education at Columbia University Teachers Colleges about his research on the topic of microaggressions.

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Discusses the racial disparities in outcomes for expectant mothers and how these disparities are not fully explained by access to care or socioeconomic status

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Examined the use of negative descriptors of patients in the electronic medical record , the greater odds of these descriptors in the charts of Black patients, and discusses the implications of these negative descriptors on patient care.

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Defines terms related to systemic and structural racism and provides examples and approaches to overcome them.

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Jenna C. Lester MD, a dermatologist and founder of the Skin of Color dermatology program at UCSF, talks about how nearly half of all new dermatologists admit to feeling uncomfortable identifying health issues on darker skin tones, resulting in poorer health outcomes for patients of color.

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Healthline article that shares an interview with a medical student, Malone Mukwende, who created an educational website, online handbook and Instagram page of disease representations on Black and Brown skin after his medical training opened his eyes to the lack of inclusion of Black and Brown skin in medical education. Please see the Toolkit tab for additional links.

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Joseph Ravenell Physician, NYU Langone Health internist and men’s health advocate talks about turning barbershops into a place where men can access basic healthcare.

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David R. Williams, Norman Professor of Public Health at Harvard's T. H. Chan School of Public Health and Professor of African and African American Studies and of Sociology at Harvard University talks about why race matters so profoundly for health and the scale he developed to measure the impact of discrimination on well-being.

~ 14 Minute Watch
Mary Bassett, physician, health activist and New York City Health Commissioner talks about the structural inequities embedded in the world’s political and economic organizations that make marginalized people more vulnerable.

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Miriam Zoila Pérez, Doula, writer and activist uses the examples of black women and babies to talk about race, class and illness, and how racism is making people sick.

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Afflicting nearly 1 in 10 Americans, syphilis was ravaging the U.S. in the 1930s. Many doctors believed syphilis affected Black and white patients differently, and the Public Health Service launched an experiment to investigate, recruiting 600 Black men to take part. But the study was centered on a lie: the men wouldn't actually receive treatment. Susan Reverby details the Tuskegee Syphilis Study.