In July, 2020, the two of us met for the first time as inaugural co-directors of the University of California, Riverside, School of Medicine’s new Health Equity, Social Justice, and Anti-Racism (HESJAR) curricular initiative. The school handed us those six words. The rest was up to us.
We started by looking and listening. We looked at what other medical schools had done. While we found some useful ideas, this strategy had built-in limitations. No other medical school that we encountered had triangulated those three intersecting but disparate ideas: health equity; social justice; and anti-racism. We had to address all three and integrate them into a coherent curriculum.
Continue reading Diversity and Speech Part 23: Health Equity – by Carlos E. Cortés and Adwoa Osei