New Collection of Articles on Addressing Race and Racism in Medical Education

Academic Medicine is committed to assisting medical schools and teaching hospitals, their faculty and trainees, and the public in learning more about complex issues and strategies to acknowledge, repair, and transcend racism to make academic medicine not only more inclusive and diverse but also more focused on a vision of human mutuality. To this end, a collection of previously published Academic Medicine articles has been posted on the journal’s website. The collection was curated by us: assistant editors, Dr. Dorene Balmer and Dr. Irene Alexandraki, with the assistance of Toni Gallo (staff editor) and Dr. Kristin Maletsky. As long-time constituents of the Academic Medicine readership and holding leadership roles in education at their respective institutions, Drs. Balmer and Alexandraki were guided by the perspectives of their Black and Latinx colleagues who nobly called on the academic medicine community to take actionable steps toward exploring systemic racism to foster an institutional culture that is anti-racist at the levels of relationships, policies, and everyday practices. To this end, we believe that the articles in this collection will advance authentic and meaningful dialogue about race and racism. We also believe that the articles will help inform leaders and other people-of-influence of ways to eliminate structural racism in academic medicine. Impressions of the Collection The collection is comprised of 14 articles published in Academic Medicine since...
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