🩺🥼 PGY-3 @BWHBCHMedPeds via @UNMC @PublicHealthUMN • 🔎📚✍🏽🗣 @FXBHarvard @HHCJ_Lab @bcrpHER on policy/equity, access to care, ACEs, racism, carceral systems
Jul 20, 2021 • 9 tweets • 9 min read
1/💡📝🧵"Building structural competency through community engagement" | @ClinicalTeacher
I tweet often about WHY health equity curricula should center #StructuralCompetency & community voices.
Our vision was simple: Moving #MedEd from ahistorical discussions of health disparities ➡️ exploring fundamental causes, centering community voices, and honing in on hyperlocal inequities.
1/ BREAKING from #AMAmtg: AMA HOD just adopted a report by the @AmerMedicalAssn's Council on Medical Education which aims to begin redressing the harms of the #FlexnerReport.
As a Councilor on CME who is invested in health justice, this is a report I am jazzed about. 🧵
2/ I learned about CME's role as a sponsor of the Flexner Report well before joining the Council, bc the downstream consequences have been huge.
The Report closed 5/7 Black medical colleges, diminishing the projected # of Black docs today by >35k 👇🏽 jamanetwork.com/journals/jaman…
For the first time in AMA history, we have policy to explicitly & actionably fight for #antiracism in #MedEd, health care delivery, research, & practice.
🧵 from the #AMAmtg2/ First, let's be clear: we passed these policies by standing on the shoulders of giants, & especially women of color.
doi.org/10.1093/cid/ci…2/ #Redlining in the 1930s involved racialized federal mapping of housing "desirability" (L) --> ⬆️💰 into White/affluent areas + systematic disinvestment in "undesirable" areas.
To this day, HOLC maps of urban areas like Omaha STILL align w/deprivation & racial segregation (R).
We are currently the ONLY state reporting ZERO state-level demographics. Short thread about why this is a #HealthEquity nightmare 🧵👇🏾
omaha.com/opinion/midlan…2/ @AmerMedicalAssn's Center for Health Equity has followed state demographic reporting. 46 states currently report race/ethnicity, 49 report age, and 48 report gender.
This is a map on which #GoBigRed#GBR has a less than ideal meaning for Nebraska.
1/ So, today was a big day for @DrJRMarcelin and I. We've been developing curricula on "Structural Challenges & Inequities in Healthcare Delivery" for the @UNMCCOM M1 students as part of the Health Systems Science coil.
Thread on this #MedEd project + today's capstone 👇🏾 2/ With inspiration from @JonathanMetzl & Dr. Helena Hanson's work on #StructuralCompetency, we wanted to assemble a pilot set of experiences that would give @UNMC students a glimpse into local health inequities, from historical & community perspectives: