Reimagining Medical Education: The Future of Health Equity and Social Justice

Inequities in health care and medical education have a long and complex history involving racism, sexism, ableism, exclusivity, and other forms of social injustice. <i>Reimagining Medical Education: The Future of Health Equity and Social Justice</i>, externally commissioned by the American Medical Association and part of the AMA MedEd Innovation Series, explores and addresses these ongoing issues. Using <b>both theoretical and practical approaches</b>, medical educators share a vision of medical education through a social justice lens. The resulting volume focuses on equity throughout medical education: <b>improving the diversity of the student, faculty, and health workforce</b> and <b>ameliorating inequitable outcomes</b> among minoritized and marginalized patient populations. This unique, change-oriented text . . .<ul><li>Shares <b>knowledge and insight from a diverse team of authors</b> who outline what an equitable future for medical education and health care can be.</li><li>Provides a <b>thought-provoking account</b> of the negative impact of centuries of asymmetry of power.</li><li>Offers <b>an aspirational vision </b>of a just system for recruiting, training, and empowering the next generation of care providers and <b>how to impact change</b> at the individual, institutional, and population levels.</li><li>Covers both <b>medical school (UME) and residency program (GME)</b> implementation strategies.</li><li>Contains <b>practical, visionary guidance</b> for faculty, staff, students, administrators, and leaders in medical education.</li><li><b>An eBook version is included with purchase. </b>The eBook allows you to access all of the text, figures and references, with the ability to search, customize your content, make notes and highlights, and have content read aloud.</li></ul>