MEDICINE AND SOCIETY: PEER-REVIEWED ARTICLE How Does Racial Segregation Taint Medical Pedagogy?

Abstract

Persistence of racial segregation makes equitable health care impossible for African Americans, as does the supra-geographic segregation perpetuated by enduring racial medical mythologies that remain unchallenged in health professions education. This article canvasses how these mythologies exacerbate myopia in health professions practice and education, maintain barriers, and perpetuate racial health inequity.