ARTICLE DATE: Jun 02, 2021
There is more and more literature on the need for medical schools to address the equality and diversity agenda in order to ensure that future doctors can effectively treat the diverse population in the UK. The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted how marginalised and particularly BME communities have poorer health outcomes. If medicine does not decolonize its curriculum and teach students to recognise signs and symptoms on darker skin tones there will be delays in diagnosis or misdiagnosis (Gishen & Lokugamage 2019). As well as offering images of conditions on black and brown skins frequently omitted in text books we have also looked at language and descriptors that often assume the patient is white.
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