MIND THE GAP
Mind the Gap is a clinical handbook of signs and symptoms in black and brown skin. The aims of the project were to highlight the lack of diversity in medical literature and education.
African American History: From Emancipation to the Present (2010)
This open Yale course examines the African American experience in the United States from 1863 to the present (2010).
Resources for education on Race-based Medicine by Dr. Latonya Riddle-Jones
EDUCATIONAL VIDEOS
'In Focus with KFF'
KFF Vice President Samantha Artiga, who directs the Racial Equity and Health Policy Program, in this new video discusses how the medical system continues to use race in ways that may perpetuate disparities, including through provider and institutional bias, clinical guidelines, and medical education and training approaches. She also discusses the growing efforts within the medical community to reevaluate and revise how race is used in health care to move toward race-conscious versus race-based medicine.
The problem with race based medicine
Social justice advocate and law scholar Dorothy Roberts has a precise and powerful message: Race-based medicine is bad medicine. Even today, many doctors still use race as a medical shortcut; they make important decisions about things like pain tolerance based on a patient's skin color instead of medical observation and measurement. In this searing talk, Roberts lays out the lingering traces of race-based medicine — and invites us to be a part of ending it. "It is more urgent than ever to finally abandon this backward legacy," she says, "and to affirm our common humanity by ending the social inequalities that truly divide us."
A reality check
From race-based to race-conscious medicine: how anti-racist uprisings call us to act. A Perspective in The Lancet, from Jessica P Cerdeña, Marie V Plaisime, and Jennifer Tsai.
This task force aims to undo the centuries-long legacy of scientific racism embedded into current clinical algorithms
which include, but are not limited to nephrology (estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) or kidney function), pulmonology (Pulmonary Function Test (PFT), Pulse Oximetry), cardiology (Atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (ASCVD) risk calculator), pharmacology (race-based therapeutics), etc.