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The majority of approaches used in medical education to teach about health disparities and racism have been applied at the level of undergraduate medical education and taught through the lens of cultural competence. The dearth of curricula that directly address the experience of racism and its impact on access to health care, diagnosis, and treatment is notable. In this chapter, the limitations of using cultural competence training as a proxy for teaching about racism and the surprisingly few efforts to teach about health inequities and racism at the residency level are reviewed and discussed. With this background, the authors describe a recently developed psychiatry residency–level, racism-focused curriculum and propose broader training efforts that are needed. Finally, a more robust approach to teaching race equity than has been systematically implemented at either the undergraduate or residency level of medical education is proposed.
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Shtasel, D., Carlo, A.D., Trinh, NH.T. (2019). Medical Education and Racism: Where Have We Been and Where Might We Go?. In: Medlock, M., Shtasel, D., Trinh, NH., Williams, D. (eds) Racism and Psychiatry. Current Clinical Psychiatry. Humana Press, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-90197-8_11
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