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Medical Education Must Go Beyond Individual Pathology

Proposed revisions to "structural competency" training requirements threaten health equity ...
The medical education community is pushing back against a proposal by the nation’s primary accreditor of medical schools to backtrack on explicit requirements to teach structural competency—or how ...
Figure 1 depicts the ways in which implicit bias (including stereotypes) that leads to false assumptions about an individual patient, combined with inattention to systemic and structural factors ...