How Should We Respond to Racist Legacies in Health Professions Education Originating in the Flexner Report

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ID15747616
AuthorsTerri Laws (0000-0002-5934-0646, African Studies Centre, corresponding author)
Year2021
Volume23
Issue3
PagesE271-275
Publication date2021-03-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueThe AMA Journal of Ethic (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2376-6980 • E-ISSN: 2376-6980
PublisherAmerican Medical Association (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1001/amajethics.2021.271
PMID33818380
OpenAlexW3135067434
LanguageEN
Citations received10
References cited4

The Flexner Report damaged and marginalized historically Black medical schools, which today produce more than their fair share of Black medical graduates. As physicians, graduates of Black medical schools have confronted head-on the inequities of American responses to COVID-19 that the pandemic has laid bare to the world. Black physicians' leadership roles in American health care and in American communities have informed the reimagination of health care and medical education as just and inclusive

African american · Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19 · Family medicine · Health care · Health equity · Medical education · Pandemic · Political science · Sociology · Diversity and Career in Medicine · Global Health Workforce Issues · Law · Medicine · Primary Care and Health Outcomes

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