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3 insights med students should know in the pursuit for health equity

Systemic inequities plague U.S. medicine, as laid bare in the last year. Learn how medical students can help in the push for change.

Med Student Advocacy
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How UCSF is working to overcome bias in clerkship grading

Evaluations of performance in clerkship can sink medical students’ ambitions. Learn with the AMA about strategies for fairness and accuracy.

Medical School Diversity
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Police brutality, health inequity: 8 ways medical faculty can respond

Learn how medical schools can offer supportive approaches to help address systemic racism, police brutality and COVID-19 inequities.

ChangeMedEd Initiative
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Rebuilding medical curricula to treat race as social construct

Medical students at Brown University lead charge to end lecturers’ depictions of race as a biological construct.

ChangeMedEd Initiative
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COVID-19 vaccination: Why collecting race, ethnicity is critical

Vaccine rollout inequities can’t be addressed until they’re understood, but essential information’s often left unreported. Learn more with the AMA.

Health Equity
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New fellowship will equip doctors to advance U.S. health equity

14-month-long fellowship gives physicians a chance to dive deep and get the skills they need to combat root causes of health inequity across the nation.

AMA Center for Optimal Health Outcomes
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Aletha Maybank, MD, on collecting race & ethnicity data to guide equity [Podcast]

The AMA is leading the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic. Listen to podcast updates on how the AMA is fighting COVID-19 by discussing the importance of collecting race and ethnicity data to guide health care decisions.

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Health Equity
AMA Update Podcast
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Aletha Maybank, MD, on collecting race & ethnicity data to guide equity

The AMA is leading the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic. See daily video updates on how the AMA is fighting COVID-19 by discussing the importance of collecting race and ethnicity data to guide health care decisions.

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Health Equity
AMA Update
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Inequity’s toll for Black Americans: 74,000 more deaths a year

Black people have 24% higher mortality rate than whites in our 30 largest cities. But rates vary widely—suggesting that inequities aren’t inevitable.

Health Equity