This article draws on Paulo Freire’s Pedagogy of the Oppressed to model how health professions education can advance health equity. It first introduces 3 well-known frameworks that can be meaningfully applied as critical pedagogy: structural competency, critical race theory, and…
Lack of disability-competent health care contributes to inequitable health outcomes for the largest minoritized population in the world: persons with disabilities. Health care professionals hold implicit and explicit bias against disabled people and report receiving inadequate disability training. While disability…
It’s a fact of life that some residents of long-term care facilities need help with basic hygiene of their perineal area. This activity reviews the importance of infection prevention aspects of care associated with the perineum, including basic hygiene, bathing,…
Pediatricians see patients across the age continuum from neonate to young adult and address a wide range of developmental and disease processes. As the patient matures, the pediatric goals gradually transition from counseling and seeking only parental or guardian consent…
The National Health Equity Grand Rounds is a live virtual event series that highlights the root causes of present-day health inequities by tracing the historical and contemporary social, economic, political, geographic, and environmental forces that shape opportunities for health in…
The National Health Equity Grand Rounds is a live virtual event series that will highlight the root causes of present-day health inequities by tracing the historical and contemporary social, economic, political, geographic, and environmental forces that shape opportunities for health…
Numerous websites provide information about clinicians and organizations from which patients seek health care. Some of these sites provide user-submitted reviews about practices and clinicians from patients or members of the public. Unfortunately, patient reviews are not always positive, and…
Host Megan Svrinivas, MD, an infectious disease physician and translational health policy researcher, speaks with AMA member Nicole Yedlinsky, MD and David Kuhar, MD. Together they discuss how Dr Yedlinksy coped with ill-fitting PPE and discuss if/how this challenge is…
The AMA understands that AMA-hosted meetings and events are valuable to its members. All AMA meetings and events should be professional, welcoming and safe for those who attend. In this module, you will learn about harassment and how to recognize…
In this episode, we are joined by Dr Joanna Turner Bisgrove, a Family Medicine physician, Member of the American Medical Association Council on Science and Public Health and anti-ableism advocate. Dr Bisgrove outlines her experience as a physician with hearing…
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