Professionalism: The Wrong Tool to Solve the Right Problem?

Victoria Frye1, Marlene Camacho-Rivera, Kaliris Salas-Ramirez

  • 1V. Frye is associate medical professor, Department of Community Health and Social Medicine, CUNY School of Medicine/Sophie Davis Program in Biomedical Education, New York, New York; ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3239-7201. M. Camacho-Rivera is assistant professor, Department of Community Health Sciences, SUNY Downstate School of Public Health, Brooklyn, New York. K. Salas-Ramirez is assistant medical professor, Department of Molecular, Cellular and Biomedical Sciences, CUNY School of Medicine/Sophie Davis Program in Biomedical Education, New York, New York. T. Albritton is assistant medical professor, Department of Community Health and Social Medicine, CUNY School of Medicine/Sophie Davis Program in Biomedical Education, New York, New York; ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7592-4318. D. Deen is distinguished lecturer, CUNY School of Medicine/Sophie Davis Program in Biomedical Education, New York, New York. N. Sohler is associate medical professor, Department of Community Health and Social Medicine, CUNY School of Medicine/Sophie Davis Program in Biomedical Education, New York, New York. S. Barrick is lecturer and director, Humanities in Medicine Program, CUNY School of Medicine/Sophie Davis Program in Biomedical Education, New York, New York. J. Nunes is medical professor, Department of Molecular, Cellular and Biomedical Sciences, CUNY School of Medicine/Sophie Davis Program in Biomedical Education, New York, New York.

Summary

Professionalism in medical education may help address racism but is insufficient alone. Defining racism and avoiding performative professionalism are key challenges for medical schools.

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