How do medical students deal with the topic of racism? A qualitative analysis of group discussions in Germany.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Anti-racism is part of the medical professional ethos. Nevertheless, racism pervades medicine on individual, institutional, and structural levels. The concept of habitus helps to understand deficiencies in enacting anti-racism in practice. We use a habitus-based framework to analyse how medical students in Germany deal with the topic of racism. The research questions are: What are medical students' understandings of racism? How do they deal with the topic in discussions? What difficulties do they face in such discussions?

Methods

In a qualitative-explorative research design, we conducted six online group discussions with 32 medical students from medical schools all over Germany. Data analysis combined qualitative methods from thematic qualitative content analysis

SUBMITTER: Gerhards SM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11575774 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature