Teaching Health Equity in the Time of COVID-19: a Virtual Look Through the Lens of Structural Racism.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

In the context of marked health disparities affecting historically marginalized communities, medical schools have an obligation to rapidly scale up COVID-19 education through the lens of structural racism.

Aim

To develop and implement a virtual curriculum on structural racism in a required COVID-19 course for medical students using "just-in-time" training.

Setting

Academic medical institution during the height of COVID-19 in the spring of 2020.

Participants

Three hundred ninety-three 3^rd and 4^th-year medical students prior to re-entry into clinical care.

Program description

Three educational sessions focused on (1) racial health disparities, (2) othering and pandemics, and (3) frameworks to address health inequity. The

SUBMITTER: Ayyala MS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9202964 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature