In health care, we are often acculturated to believe patients who don’t follow physicians’ care plans are “non-compliant” or do not care about their health. Understanding the history behind a patient’s lack of trust in a care plan may help…
Discuss reproductive health care as a human right and how this connects to health equity, and explore the impacts that it has not only on patients and communities but also physicians.
Discuss reproductive health care as a human right and how this connects to health equity, and explore the impacts that it has not only on patients and communities but also physicians.
Advancements in digital health technology offer incredible opportunity to advance health equity and improve outcomes for all communities. However, racism, sexism, ableism, and other systems of oppression are embedded in prevalent technology development practices and structures from the way digital…
Technology can improve health care quality and outcomes, reduce costs, and expand access. However, health care systems and practices often struggle with finite resources, competing priorities, and fragmented health information technology that can limit the impact, reach, and sustainability of…
Racism in Medicine provides physicians and health care workers access to important historical foundations of medicine. Learners will have the opportunity to learn about race, racism, and the systems of power that influence the well-being of communities of color. This…
Discuss the myth of meritocracy, its presence in health care, and how physicians can move past it to advance health equity.
Discuss how advancing health equity requires sharing power through effective partnerships and alliances with those who have experienced marginalization, exploitation, expropriation, and injustice across generations.
Explore how dominant narratives perpetuate harm and how these narratives can be challenged and disrupted, moving towards equity-focused and person-first alternatives.
Discuss the myth of meritocracy, its presence in health care, and how physicians can move past it to advance health equity.
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