The Medical Student Teaching Medicine About Structural Racism

Robert A. Harrington interviews LaShyra Nolen, a medical student and the 2021 recipient of the American Medical Student Association's Racial Justice in Medicine Award.

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How Medical Education Is Missing the Bull's-eye

https://doi.org/10.1056/NEJMp1915891

This Is What I Want To Tell My White Professors When They Ask, 'How Are You Today?'

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/black-medical-student-wants-white-professors-to-know_n_5ed91238c5b6e0feefc26315

Statue of Controversial Surgeon to Be Moved From Central Park

https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/891413

A Rift Over Carl Linnaeus Shows We Shouldn't Idolise Scientists

https://science.thewire.in/the-sciences/carl-linnaeus-entomological-society-of-america-great-man-theory-progress/

Running Away from Drapetomania: Samuel A. Cartwright, Medicine, and Race in the Antebellum South

https://muse.jhu.edu/article/699875

What Led Chicago to Shutter Dozens of Majority-Black Schools? Racism

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/dec/06/chicago-public-schools-closures-racism-ghosts-in-the-schoolyard-extract

Call to Action: Structural Racism as a Fundamental Driver of Health Disparities: A Presidential Advisory From the American Heart Association

https://doi.org/10.1161/CIR.0000000000000936

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