U.S. medical schools both new and old are struggling to live up to their stated goals around diversity and inclusion and cast off the long history of racism embedded in U.S. health care—problems too deeply entrenched for a few well-placed buzzwords to fix https://t.co/DzvTrqftZ3
#AMEE2022 As a 70+ medical educator, I am dismayed to hear so many in that cohort refer to themselves as being unable to understand “technology”. Is it us or is it the “technology”? What can we do or what can the technology developers do to gap this divide?
There are words you shouldn’t call academic (or any) women. Words you might think are innocuous, but have a long history of being used to dismiss, devalue, or discredit women. You might not be aware that these words should be avoided. A 🧵
#academia#AcademicTwitter#WomenInSTEM
Diversity 👏🏻 In👏🏻Simulation👏🏻
This cannot be emphasized enough.
The first time our future healthcare providers encounter diverse patients should not be a trial by fire. We MUST educate, prepare, and equip our field to care for historically (and currently) marginalized peoples
Safe abortion care is essential to protect the health of women & girls everywhere.
Removing access to #abortion care will put more women & girls at risk of illegal abortions and the consequent safety issues that would bring https://t.co/tbsMFGQAn4
Breyer/Sotomayor/Kagan: "With sorrow—for this Court, but more, for the many millions of American women who have today lost a fundamental constitutional protection—we dissent." From Roe ... to Sorrow. It truly is sad.