Our vision was simple: Moving #MedEd from ahistorical discussions of health disparities ā”ļø 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. š§µ
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 šš½ jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanā¦
For the first time in AMA history, we have policy to explicitly & actionably fight for #antiracism in #MedEd, health care delivery, research, & practice.
š§µ 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/ciā¦2/ #Redlining in the 1930s involved racialized federal mapping of housing "desirability" (L) --> ā¬ļøš° 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 š§µšš¾
omaha.com/opinion/midlanā¦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 šš¾ 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: