My life is plagued by a phenomenon in which the scrub pants, which I have carefully inspected before pulling out of the drawer, miraculously turn into scrub tops and vice versa when I try to put some them on
@ju_st_3 I feel like any time a Derm topic is taught it should address different skin tones. It shouldn’t have to be “special” lectures to teach dermatology for BIPOC.
@ju_st_3 Yes, it definitely came up. We had some special lectures on it and were given resources specifically for dermatology complaints from BIPOC. But the fact is our text books, question banks, and Tests had mostly white people in the photos. Special lectures are helpful at times, but
@ju_st_3 When I looked for them, I thought they might be there, but I wasn’t sure because I had never seen them on a black person before in all my studying. If the person had been white I would have had no doubt. But I had to Google images of these skin signs because I didn’t know what (2
@ju_st_3 It’s a real problem. Even in resources meant for health care providers, there is a serious lack of diversity, which I think negatively effects healthcare for BIPOC. Today I had a black patient that I knew to look for classic skin findings to support my suspected diagnosis (1/2)