Day 1 of #idsaracialequitychallenge:
@NPR Shortwave Podcast on understanding unconscious bias:
npr.org/2020/07/14/891…
Day 2 of #IDSARacialEquityChallenge. Today, I’m borrowing these great podcast recs:
@IDSAInfo @PIDSociety #dothework https://t.co/SgPhfwULci
Day 3 of #IDSARacialEquityChallenge.
With fellowship interview season coming up, time to look in the mirror and retake the Harvard Implicit Association Test. Takes <10 min, and IMHO should be required for all academic selection committees:
implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/selec…
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Today, I’m thinking about our medical trainees. Powerful essay by @ChristleNwora-
aamc.org/news-insights/…
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Still thinking about our trainees and applicants, and how admissions committees talk about candidates with "grit" or "distance traveled" -
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Today, a 5 mile run in the rain - while listening to this powerful and personal IDSA podcast episode on racial inequities and #COVID-19:
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Today I'm reading and sharing this editorial @ScienceMagazine on systemic racism in science:
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This one is hard, personal, and will take some time to process. I spent some time today confronting the history slave ownership in my own family.
Should this be relevant to you, some resources here: archives.gov/files/calendar…
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From the 1850 US Census (Slave Schedule), meet Samuel Odom, who enslaved 8 people, mostly children (ages 30, 25, 11, 9, 7, 5, 3, and a baby). 💔
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I believe this is the same Samuel Odom, in an overtly white supremacist letter back home during the Civil War
I'm going to need to sit with this a bit.
digital.tcl.sc.edu/u?/civilwar,18…
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Today, back to thinking more about efforts to increase URiM faculty in medical sub-specialities, like Peds ID:
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Sharing this essay from my former @DukeMedSchool classmate, Damon Tweedy, on racism in medicine:
nytimes.com/2020/07/27/opi…
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Today, facing the institutional racism in academia, with these words from the Dr. Bumpus, Chair of Pharmacology and Molecular Sciences at Johns Hopkins:
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Proud to share this statement from @AmerAcadPeds apologizing for the “shameful gauntlet to membership” for its first Black members:
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Honoring John Lewis today - sharing his final must-read call to action again:
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And more on his life story from this NYT podcast:
nytimes.com/2020/07/20/pod…?
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5. You’re not willing to sacrifice anything
forbes.com/sites/danabrow…
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Really thinking today about what it means that Black women in Philly are so much more likely to get infected with SARS-CoV2 -
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Today, sharing this meaty article (recommended by IDSA) on
structural racism and health inequities:
ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P…
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Registering today for this incredible webinar (Oct. 1) on slavery and its legacy in NC, featuring a number of institutions near my home town (h/t @rejoicePhD):
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Sharing yet more evidence - this time in pediatrics - of the racial and ethnic disparities in #SARSCoV2 infection:
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Terrific @IDSA @IDSAMedEdCOP thread that includes many actions programs are taking to improve diversity and inclusion in ID:
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Today I'd like to recommend this terrific but super-quick (2 min!) video from the BBC explaining the concept of white privilege (h/t @500womensci):
Also I could listen to this accent all day...
bbc.co.uk/bitesize/artic…
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2 updates to finish the weekend:
1) Racial bias...in pulse oximetry:
bostonreview.net/science-nature…
2) “I didn’t tell you” – a poem written and spoken by Norma Johnson (h/t: @taliaswarz):
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And a special call to pediatricians, because the excess mortality in minority communities is not limited to adults. Here's St. Louis data from 2012:
@PIDSociety #tweetiatrician
source: bit.ly/3ixqCoQ
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More devastating data on racial disparities in mortality -
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Words of wisdom:
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Advice for those working on being an ally:
via @Forbes
forbes.com/sites/amberjoh…
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Today, sharing this important commentary on eliminating structural racism in medicine via @JAMA_current
The @IDSAInfo @pids challenge is over but the work goes on ...
ja.ma/3iRSR1L
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