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Reimagining Medical Education: The Future of Health Equity and Social Justice, 1st Edition

Authors :
Eduardo Bonilla-Silva & Emily A. Haozous & Gerald Kayingo & William McDade & Lisa Meeks & Ana Núñez & Toyese Oyeyemi & Janet Southerland & Javeed Sukhera
Date of Publication: 11/2024
Inequities in health care and medical education have a long and complex history involving racism, sexism, ableism, exclusivity, and other forms of social injustice. Reimagining Medical Education: The Future of Health Equity and Social Justice, extern ...view more
Inequities in health care and medical education have a long and complex history involving racism, sexism, ableism, exclusivity, and other forms of social injustice. Reimagining Medical Education: The Future of Health Equity and Social Justice, externally commissioned by the American Medical Association and part of the AMA MedEd Innovation Series, explores and addresses these ongoing issues. Using both theoretical and practical approaches, medical educators share a vision of medical education through a social justice lens. The resulting volume focuses on equity throughout medical education: improving the diversity of the student, faculty, and health workforce and ameliorating inequitable outcomes among minoritized and marginalized patient populations. This unique, change-oriented text . . .
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Inequities in health care and medical education have a long and complex history involving racism, sexism, ableism, exclusivity, and other forms of social injustice. Reimagining Medical Education: The Future of Health Equity and Social Justice, externally commissioned by the American Medical Association and part of the AMA MedEd Innovation Series, explores and addresses these ongoing issues. Using both theoretical and practical approaches, medical educators share a vision of medical education through a social justice lens. The resulting volume focuses on equity throughout medical education: improving the diversity of the student, faculty, and health workforce and ameliorating inequitable outcomes among minoritized and marginalized patient populations. This unique, change-oriented text . . .

Key Features
  • Shares knowledge and insight from a diverse team of authors who outline what an equitable future for medical education and health care can be.
  • Provides a thought-provoking account of the negative impact of centuries of asymmetry of power.
  • Offers an aspirational vision of a just system for recruiting, training, and empowering the next generation of care providers and how to impact change at the individual, institutional, and population levels.
  • Covers both medical school (UME) and residency program (GME) implementation strategies.
  • Contains practical, visionary guidance for faculty, staff, students, administrators, and leaders in medical education.
  • An eBook version is included with purchase. The eBook allows you to access all of the text, figures and references, with the ability to search, customize your content, make notes and highlights, and have content read aloud.

Author Information
By Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, PhD, James B. Duke Distinguished Professor of Sociology, Duke Trinity College of Arts and Sciences, Durham, NC, USA; Emily A. Haozous, RN, PhD, Research Scientist, Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation, Albuquerque, NM, USA; Gerald Kayingo, PhD, MMSc, PA-C, Assistant Dean of Research, Executive Director, Physician Assistant Leadership and Learning Academy, University of Maryland, Baltimore, Maryland; William McDade, MD, PhD, Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer, Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education, Chicago, IL, USA; Lisa Meeks, PhD, Associate Professor of Family Medicine and Learning, Health Sciences, Meeks Research Group, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA; Ana Núñez, MD, Vice Dean, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, Professor of Medicine, Division of General Internal Medicine, University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis, MN, USA; Toyese Oyeyemi, MPH, MCHES, Executive Director, Social Mission Alliance, Washington, DC, USA; Janet Southerland, DDS, MPH, PhD, Vice Chancellor Academic Affairs and Chief Academic Officer, LSU Health Sciences Center, New Orleans, New Orleans, LA, USA and Javeed Sukhera, MD, PhD, Chief of Psychiatry, Hartford Hospital, Hartford, CT, USA