Racial Battle Fatigue: The Toll of Policing Black Students
Researchers found that Black adolescents who were stopped by police at school or witnessed someone being stopped experienced the greatest depressive symptoms.
Reporting on and Reviewing for Race/Racialization, Ethnicity, and Culture
Structural racism affects who runs the journal, who submits and reviews, what topics are emphasized, how the role of racism and ethnoracial categories are conceptualized and included or ignored in analyses and discussions, and what policy and services recommendations are made.
Re-examining the utility and validity of benign ethnic neutropenia: A narrative literature review
To conduct a narrative literature review of published evidence documenting racial differences in white blood cells (WBCs) resulting in the legitimization of benign ethnic neutropenia (BEN) as a diagnosis.
The Match: Magic Versus Machines
Each spring, at high noon on a Friday in mid- March, thousands of soon-to-be physicians gather with mentors and faculty to have their medical futures revealed before classmates, family, and friends. The event is the culmination of what has been an elaborate, 5-month courtship ritual.
Reconsidering Systems-Based Practice: Advancing Structural Competency, Health Equity, and Social Responsibility in Graduate Medical Education
Health inequities stem from systematic, pervasive social and structural forces. These forces marginalize populations and create the circumstances that disadvantage these groups, as reflected in differences in outcomes like life expectancy and infant mortality and in inequitable access to and delivery of health care resources.
Confronting Racial Violence: Resident, Unit, and Institutional Responses
By describing an instance of racial violence by a patient against a resident physician, the authors hope to stimulate further discussion by addressing three specific questions about managing racist patients
Blackface in White Space: Using Admissions to Address Racism in Medical Education
Given the long history and pervasive nature of racism in medical culture, this essay argues that diversifying efforts alone cannot address systemic racism in medical education.