Vanderbilt U. Dermatology Residents Receive Anti-Racism Training

Vanderbilt U. Dermatology Residents Receive Anti-Racism Training

If this trend in the study of medicine is not squashed, we will eventually regret it as a nation.

Campus Reform reports:

Vanderbilt holds anti-racism training for dermatology residents

One of the nation’s premier universities promoting “anti-racism” in its medical school programming.

On Sept. 26 and 27, dermatology residents at the Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) completed the “Curriculum for Advancing Racial Equity” (CARE) designed by the American Academy of Dermatology (AAD).

The CARE program aims to fulfill a number of learning objectives relating to anti-racism, such as helping medical personnel “recognize and address racial microaggressions aimed at patients and physicians of color.”

The program also seeks to help health care professionals “engage in perspective-taking to minimize bias and stereotyping when interacting with patients and physicians of color,” and “investigate and address the impact of clinical and administrative actions that produce adverse effects for people of color.”

The Vanderbilt workshop featured discussions focused on “structural racism, implicit bias, strategies to minimize bias when interacting with patients and physicians of color, identity and privilege, racial microaggressions, and institutional racism in health care,” according to VUMC News.

AAD launched the CARE program in 2021 at the George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences.

VUMC’s decision to employ the CARE curriculum comes in the wake of similar, recent initiatives to center its medical research and education around Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) ideology.

In 2021, VUMC established the Diversity Liaison Committee, whose goals include “enhancing and fostering a culture that promotes the engagement, growth and retention of diverse faculty, scientists, staff and trainees.”

It primarily pursues these objectives by aiming to “develop strategies to enhance and support diversity and inclusion” and “ensure that [its] department is fully engaged in anti-racism training and development of a racial equity climate survey.”

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