Racism and Healthcare Education, Practices, and Research

There are also calls to dismantle racism in healthcare professional education and clinical and research practices, for example:

Akinlade O. Taking Black Pain SeriouslyNEJM 2020, 383(10): e68. doi: 0.1056/NEJMpv2024759. Epub 2020 Aug 18. PMID: 32809299.

The American Psychiatric Association (APA) issued an apology for its support of structural racism in psychiatry, and detailed some of its racist acts and omissions; the APA’s actions were reported by the New York Times on April 30, 2021.

Amutah C, Greenidge K, Mante A, et al. Misrepresenting Race - The Role of Medical Schools in Propagating Physician BiasNEJM 2021, 384(9): 872-878. doi: 10.1056/NEJMms2025768. Epub 2021 Jan 6. PMID: 33406326.

Bailey M. The Flexner Report: Standardizing Medical Students Through Region-, Gender-, and Race-Based HierarchiesAmerican Journal of Law & Medicine 2017, 43(2-3), 209-223. doi: 10.1177/0098858817723660.
Bailey ZD, Feldman JM, Bassett MT. How Structural Racism Works - Racist Policies as a Root Cause of U.S. Racial Health InequitiesNEJM 2021, 384(8): 768-773. doi: 10.1056/NEJMms2025396. Epub 2020 Dec 16. PMID: 33326717.

Bajaj SS, Stanford FC. Beyond Tuskegee - Vaccine Distrust and Everyday RacismNEJM 2021, 384(5): e12. doi: 10.1056/NEJMpv2035827. Epub 2021 Jan 20. PMID: 33471971.

Borrell LN, Elhawary JR, Fuentes-Afflick E, et al. Race and Genetic Ancestry in Medicine - A Time for Reckoning with RacismNEJM 2021, 384(5): 474-480. doi: 10.1056/NEJMms2029562. Epub 2021 Jan 6. PMID: 33406325.

Gilmore-Bykovsky A, Jackson JD, Wilkins CH. The Urgency of Justice in Research: Beyond COVID-19Trends in Molecular Medicine 2021, 27(2): 97-100.

Griffith DM, Mason M, Yonas M, et al. Dismantling Institutional Racism: Theory and ActionAmerican Journal of Community Psychology 2007, 39(3-4): 381-92. doi: 10.1007/s10464-007-9117-0. PMID: 17404829.

Hardeman RR, Medina EM, Kozhimannil KB. Structural Racism and Supporting Black Lives - The Role of Health ProfessionalsNEJM 2016, 375(22): 2113-2115. doi:10.1056/NEJMp1609535.

Ioannidis JPA, Powe NR, Yancy C. Recalibrating the Use of Race in Medical ResearchJAMA 2021, 325(7): 623–624. doi:10.1001/jama.2021.0003.

Krakauer EL, Truog RD. Mistrust, racism, and end-of-life treatmentThe Hastings Center Report 1997, 27(3): 23-25. doi.org/10.2307/3528663. PMID: 9219020.

Lantz, PM. The Tenets of Critical Race Theory Have a Long-Standing and Important Role in Population Health ScienceMilbank Quarterly Opinion, July 14, 2021. doi: 10.1599/mqop.2021.0714.

Laws T. How Should We Respond to Racist Legacies in Health Professions Education Originating in the Flexner Report? AMA Journal of Ethics 2021, 23(3): E271-275. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2021.271.

National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. Using Population Descriptors in Genetics and Genomics Research: A New Framework for an Evolving Field. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press 2020. https://doi.org/10.17226/26902.

Perritt J. #WhiteCoatsForBlackLives - Addressing Physicians' Complicity in Criminalizing CommunitiesNEJM 2020, 383(19): 1804-1806. doi: 10.1056/NEJMp2023305. PMID: 33211926.

Power-Hays A, McGann PT. When Actions Speak Louder Than Words - Racism and Sickle Cell DiseaseNEJM 2020, 383(20): 1902-1903. doi: 10.1056/NEJMp2022125. Epub 2020 Sep 1. PMID: 32871062.

Steinecke A, Terrell C. Progress for Whose Future? The Impact of the Flexner Report on Medical Education for Racial and Ethnic Minority Physicians in the United StatesAcademic Medicine 2010, 85(2): 236-245. doi: 10.1097/ACM.0b013e3181c885be.