Commonwealth Fund April 26, 2024
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Because medical students are trained almost exclusively on images of white patients, they can be underprepared to care for Black patients, leading to delayed diagnosis and treatment and worse outcomes
On The Dose podcast, medical student and illustrator Chidiebere Ibe discusses his efforts to make inclusive imagery widely accessible — a critical starting point for health care equity
In medical school, students learning about illness, pathology, and disease are trained almost exclusively on images of white patients. Even materials on illnesses that predominantly affect Black people, like sickle cell disease, and textbooks used in medical schools in countries where most people are Black, are filled with illustrations of white bodies and white skin. This leaves doctors underprepared to care...
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