Where is the curriculum for Muslim patient care?

Approximately 3.85 million Muslims live in the United States, and the population is projected to become the second-largest religious group in the country by 2040. Nearly half of Muslim adults report experiencing religious discrimination, and Islamophobia has documented health consequences including delayed care-seeking and adverse clinical outcomes. Despite this, structured education on caring for Muslim patients is almost entirely absent from undergraduate medical curricula. Generic cultural competency training, while necessary, does not equip students with the population-specific clinical knowledge needed to act differently in an exam room. Building on a 2024 scoping review by Zagloul and colleagues that documented the unmet healthcare needs of Muslim patients in the United States, we argue that medical schools should adopt targeted curricula grounded in cultural humility and structural competency. We describe one such curriculum, summarize evidence supporting its effectiveness, and outline a practical path for adoption at other institutions. The same model could be applied to other religious and cultural populations whose needs remain unaddressed in standard medical education and contribute to broader efforts to close health disparities for underserved communities.