• Richard D deShazo, Craig J Hoesley, and Selwyn M Vickers.
• Department of Medical Education; The University of Alabama in Birmingham, School of Medicine, Birmingham, Ala; Billy S. Guyton Distinguished Professor, Professor of Medicine and Pediatrics (Emeritus), University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson; Office of the Senior Associate Dean for Education.
• Am. J. Med. 2021 May 1; 134 (5): 565-568.

AbstractBias based on skin color, religion, immigrant status, gender, and ethnicity are deeply rooted in American culture and have existed within the infrastructure of American medicine from the beginning. Now, medical educators are struggling to find curriculum and experiences that effectively address explicit and implicit bias among our increasingly diverse group of students, house staff, and practitioners. The leadership, experience, and lessons learned needed to scrub present medical school curricula of racial bias, to develop an antiracist curriculum, and to test its effectiveness already lies with the American Medical Association (AMA), the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC), and the National Medical Association (NMA). We call on these organizations to jointly convene a consortium of medical educators, social scientists, curricular specialists, and others to chart a way forward to assist medical schools and professional organizations in developing evaluable curricular materials and experiences to eliminate bias in health care.Copyright © 2020 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

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