KevinMD August 23, 2024
An excerpt from Curricular Injustice: How U.S. Medical Schools Reproduce Inequality. Copyright (c) 2024 Lauren D. Olsen. Used by arrangement with the Publisher. All rights reserved.
In Curricular Injustice: How U.S. Medical Schools Reproduce Inequalities, I describe how the medical profession, in its attempt to integrate the humanities and social sciences to develop humane and equitable future physicians, often failed to do so. Clinical faculty members, in their capacity as curricular designers and implementers, were at the heart of these failures. Their limited understandings of the critical and reflective contributions of these fields patterned their delivery of the material. Failure happened at each step in the process of knowledge application, which in this case was their process of transforming the...
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