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Caroline Coleman Profile picture
Caroline Coleman
@cg_coleman
Emory IM resident, interested in PCCM. Meddler in graphics, illustrations, and podcasting. Illustration editor for First Aid for the USMLE Step 1. she/her
Nov 10, 2020 • 13 tweets • 7 min read
How to (respectfully, inclusively, & humbly) write about people in medicine: lessons learned from being an editor for First Aid for the USMLE 2021... Sharing some strategies to ⬆️ representation & ⬇️ biased or inaccurate language re:
- race, ethnicity
- gender, sex, sexual orientation
- substance use
- mental health
Whether you’re in publishing, writing a manuscript, or writing notes in the #OpenNote era, here are some ideas:
May 26, 2020 • 8 tweets • 3 min read
A few weeks ago, I did a cover-to-cover read-through of the First Aid for the USMLE Step 1 2020 textbook. As the book’s illustration co-editor, I was looking for graphics to improve for our 2021 version. (1/7) I noticed a pattern I hadn’t seen before: of the almost 70 illustrations showing skin tone or sex, every single illustration showed pink/light beige skin, and every graphic except 1 was male*. That’s 100% white & almost 100% male. *excluding reproductive anatomy graphics (2/7)