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Structural Racism and Health Professions Education

11/1/2020

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Podcast: Racism as a public health issue

As the world continues to find solutions to the COVID-19 pandemic, society is confronting another pandemic: racism. Racism is embedded and woven into the historical fabric of the nation and finds itself throughout health care. From forced, unconsenting sterilization of Black women in the early 1900's (and among women in ICE detention in 2020) to segregated medical treatment by race and ethnicity, it is time for us to reckon with our history and work toward the structural changes necessary toward health equity. As health professionals and members of the health professionals training institutions, we must explore and embrace the difficult yet necessary work that is required of us to achieve health equity. This edition of the BFA newsletter will focus on the mission driven work being done to advance our work in dismantling structural racism and advancing racial justice in health professions education.
Beyond Flexner Alliance News
A note from the BFA Conference Steering Committee

The Beyond Flexner Alliance, A.T. Still University, and the Edson College of Nursing and Health Innovation at Arizona State University are very pleased to announce that we will be moving the April 2021 conference to a virtual platform and we will continue to partner and co-host the next 2022 Beyond Flexner Conference in-person in Phoenix, AZ. Please hold these dates:
 
April 26-28, 2021
2021 Beyond Flexner Virtual Conference


March 28-30, 2022 
2022 Beyond Flexner Conference
Phoenix, AZ
 

Watch your e-mails and the Beyond Flexner Alliance Website for updates and registration in the next few weeks. If you registered for the 2020 conference and/or had an abstract accepted, we will also be following up and providing more information in the next few weeks.

Announcing New BFA Director

Beyond Flexner Alliance is thrilled to announce our inaugural Director! A Senior Fellow in the 2017 cohort of the Atlantic Fellows for Health Equity, Toyese Oyeyemi previously served as a Health Extension Regional Officer and researcher at the University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center. As director of the Beyond Flexner Alliance, Toyese will be focused on connecting leaders in healthcare, encouraging new practices of global learning within the alliance, and engaging a broader and more inclusive set of social mission stakeholders and programming. Please join us in welcoming Toyese!

Thank you BFA Interns

Our warmest thanks to our five inaugural BFA summer interns who joined our team. Thank you Sarah Schmitt, Bianka Aceves Martin, Autumn Nobles, Geoffrey Broadbent, and Jaileessa Casimir, for your contributions to our community-building projects! If you are interested in our internship or volunteer opportunities, please contact info@beyondflexner.org

 Initiatives

Beyond Flexner Alliance co-sponsored the second annual Fitzhugh Mullan Summit on Health Workforce Equity on Structural Racism and Health Professions Education on October 29, 2020. The Summit’s goal was to identify institutional/structural barriers that hinder greater diversity of the health workforce and actions to reduce the identified barriers. A recording of the Summit can be found on the Mullan Institute website. 

Recently the House Ways and Means Committee announced a Request for Information (RFI) soliciting input on the misuse of race within clinical care. Read BFA's comments here. 

BFA Publications and Webinars
  • Harvard Medical School Center for Primary Care Piece co-authored by Dr. Candice Chen and BFA Summer Intern, Autumn Nobles: Social Mission Now: The Role of Health Professions Education in Addressing Health Equity and Social Justice.
  • STAT news article by Drs. Jamar Slocum, Isabel Chen, and Natalie Kirilichin: Med students, physicians need social mission education now more than ever.
  • A Beyond Flexner Alliance and American Medical Association Innovations in Medical Education Webinar on Applying Systems Thinking to Address Structural Racism in Health Professions Education: Curriculum, Structural Competency, and Institutional Change
  • Center for Integration of Primary Care and Oral Health Continuing Professional Education Series: Stepping Out of Our “Lanes” and Reimagining Interprofessional Education
  • Beyond Flexner Alliance and American Medical Student Association Webinar: Reimagining Health Professions School for Students of Color during COVID-19 Webinar
Social Mission Champion Spotlight

White Coats for Black Lives (WC4BL) 

Chinelo Onyilofor, MPH is a 4th-year medical student at The George Washington University School of Medicine and an executive board member of GW’s White Coats for Black Lives Chapter. Within the chapter, Chinelo co-leads the curriculum pillar which focuses on how to include anti-racist ideals within the medical curriculum. In the future, Chinelo hopes to pursue a career in internal medicine, focusing on health equity as well as the intersection of global health and cardiovascular diseases.


White Coats for Black Lives (WC4BL) is a medical student-run organization seeking to dismantle racism in medicine and promote the health, well-being, and self-determination of people of color. The organization functions under the guidance of three goals: (1) Foster dialogue on racism as a public health concern, (2) End racial discrimination in medical care, (3) Prepare future physicians to be advocates for racial justice. WC4BL not only advocates for the delivery of culturally competent health care, but also for the medical profession to disrupt systemic racism. WC4BL developed a racial justice report card consisting of metrics to evaluate an academic center’s commitment to fighting racism in medicine. How does your institution compare? White Coats 4 Black Lives 2019 Racial Justice Report Card

Social Mission Champion Spotlight: Want to Share Your Innovative Work with the BFA Community?
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The Beyond Flexner Alliance wants to highlight your work! We highlight individuals and projects that embody the Beyond Flexner Alliance goal of promoting a social mission in the health professions and want to share the different ways in which you are building equity in education, research, service, policy, and practice. To submit your project please complete this form.


Race and Health Profession's Education Resources
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Articles
  • Structural Racism and Supporting Black Lives - The Role of Health Professionals
  • How Medical Education is Missing the Bull’s-eye
  • Racial Bias in Flexner Report Permeates Medical Education Today
  • Study Backs Flexner Report’s Negative Impact on Black Physicians
  • Commentary: Racism and Bias in Health Professions Education: How Educators, Faculty Developers, and Researchers Can Make a Difference
Multimedia
  • American Public Health Association Webinar - Racism: The Ultimate Underlying Condition.
  • Association of American Medical Colleges. Beyond the White Coat Podcast. "Racial Health Disparities: How COVID-19 Magnified a Public Health Emergency."
  • Podcast: Racism as a public health issue
  • Racism and Health: A Reading List
  • Journal of Best Practices in Health Professions Diversity: Research, Education and Policy
  • Addressing Harmful Bias and Eliminating Discrimination in Health Professions Learning Environments
Social Mission Opportunities
  • NIH National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities Loan Repayment Program is open for applications (Deadline: November 20, 2020, 8pm EST)
  • Atlantic Fellows for Health Equity (AFHE) Application Now Open! (Deadline: November 20, 2020) 
  • Special Issue on “Social, Structural, and Policy Determinants of Maternal and Child Health and Health Inequities” International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (Deadline for manuscript submission: November 30, 2020)
  • Community Interventions to Address the Consequences of the COVID-19 Pandemic among Health Disparity and Vulnerable Population (Deadline: December 1, 2020)
  • Notice of Special Interest (NOSI): Competitive and Administrative Supplements for Community Interventions to Reduce the Impact of COVID-19 on Health Disparity and Other Vulnerable Populations (Expiration Date: December 30, 2020)
  • Johnson & Johnson Nurses Innovate QuickFire Challenge on Mental Health (Deadline: January 15, 2021)
  • 2021 Macy Faculty Scholars Application Now Open (Deadline: February 10, 2021)
  • Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) COVID-19 Research Awards (Deadline: On a rolling basis)
  • National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities: Active Funding Opportunities
  • AAMC: Health Equity Grants & Funding Opportunities & Health Equity Fellowships and Training Programs
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