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Empowering Student Antiracist Work to Overcome Inertia in Academic Health Centers.
Victoria M Ngo1, Sarah Beaverson2, Susie Turkson3
1V.M. Ngo is a third-year medical student, Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine, Richmond, Virginia.
Students can drive antiracist change in academic health centers by overcoming barriers like power gradients. Empowerment, faculty allyship, and sustainability are key for effective student advocacy and building antiracist physician identities.
Area of Science:
- Medical Education
- Social Justice in Healthcare
- Antiracism in Academia
Background:
- Academic health centers face challenges in becoming antiracist.
- Institutional inertia perpetuates inequity.
- Students offer unique perspectives to disrupt the status quo.
Purpose of the Study:
- Examine challenges to student antiracist advocacy in academic health centers.
- Identify essential principles for effective student antiracist work.
- Propose operational strategies and a new framework for physician professional identity.
Main Methods:
- Analysis of challenges faced by students in antiracist advocacy.
- Identification of key principles: student empowerment, faculty allyship, sustainability.
- Proposal for sequential, student-led task forces.
Main Results:
- Student antiracist work is hindered by power gradients and professional acceptance needs.
- Student empowerment, faculty allyship, and sustainability are crucial.
- Sequential task forces can operationalize antiracist initiatives.
Conclusions:
- Students can be agents of antiracist change in academic health centers.
- Rethinking professionalism and physician identity around antiracism is essential.
- This approach can foster more just healthcare environments.
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