Graduate Medical Education in the Freddie Gray Era  

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Zakaria, Sammy ; Johnson, Erica N. ; Hayashi, Jennifer L. ; Christmas, Colleen

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: The New England Journal of Medicine (keterangan: ada di Proquest) vol. 373 no. 21 (Nov. 2015), page 1998-2000.

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Freddie Gray, a 25-year-old black man, died on April 19, 2015, from injuries he sustained while in the custody of the Baltimore Police Department. The details of his arrest spurred protests over the unjust treatment of black Americans by the police. As directors of an urban internal medicine residency program in Baltimore, we sought strategies to help our residents, faculty, and staff process these events and their social context. Inspired by our residents' desire to improve our hospital's neighborhood, we intend to translate their sense of urgency into meaningful action, in part by revising our curriculum to emphasize physicians' responsibility for improving community health. Even before the protests, we were aware of the underlying problems in Baltimore. Although many neighborhoods are doing well, large parts of the city have been systematically neglected or harmed over the past century because of structural racism.1 Until the 1950s, laws and property-development regulations hindered development in black-majority neighborhoods and prevented migration of blacks into more affluent white-majority areas. Medical care reflected the sentiments behind this discrimination. As late as 1959, some physicians refused to treat black patients, 10 of Baltimore's 17 hospitals declined to provide childbirth accommodations for black women,2 and many of the remaining hospitals segregated blacks into separate wards.

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