Thread by @javeedsukhera

Must listen for anyone involved with #equity #antiracism work in #meded and beyond. #RIME #AAMC21 A few highlights...

https://twitter.com/AcadMedJournal/status/1445388992577421314

It is fantastic to see a growth of scholarship related to inequity, racism, and justice in #MedEd. Research can help us gain a deeper understanding and both papers we featured use innovative methods to help generate knowledge with important implications. /1

First is the paper by Drs. @DrTashaWyatt @DrTarynMD White, and @MCGpharmacprof They explored the effects of #racialviolence on Black trainees/physicians using the concept of #racialtrauma and constructivist grounded theory. /2

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"One individual actually described it as feeling like you're suffocating for a long time"

Black physicians clearly recognized their professional status was not protective...participants did not feel empowered to make changes because of power differentials. /3

The authors emphasize the importance of not only 'safe spaces' - but recognizing that the burden of future work should not fall on minoritized physicians and trainees. /4

The second paper by @TMickleborough and @martimianakis involved a spatial analysis of literature on integration of internationally educated health professionals, finding that discourses of "Canadianness" maintain the homogeneity of professional spaces. /5

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"So professional spaces are elite spaces. So these are spaces that reproduce privileged identities and social status. So they have to be protected to prevent that loss of privilege and respectability." /6

"...do we spend the time to get to know who’s coming, who’s attracted to the health care context, the Canadian health care context? So what did they bring with them? What does that other knowledge that we ended up making invisible in the process of resocialization." /7

So in integrating both papers and ideas on space, inclusion, exclusion, power, and moving the needle on justice, I asked both sets of authors: /8

"Although that cloak can be invisible, those of us who wear it, it can be quite itchy and it can be quite hot and quite uncomfortable. So 2 of the things that I think intersect between both studies are this idea of safety and the idea of space." /9

"Something I’ve talked about a lot is, I think sometimes we over idealize the idea of a safe space and I think we should critically challenge that because really safe spaces don’t exist. If a space is safe for me, that doesn’t mean it’s safe for someone else." /10

Take a listen or read the transcript to see what they had to say. /END

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