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Year:: 2010
Contributor:: Acquaviva, Kimberly D (Author); Mintz, Matthew (Author)
Subject:: medical education; graduate medical education; race classification; practice disparities

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Abstract:: This perspective piece addresses the practice by physicians of using subjective visual assessments to decide the race of a patient, and using this information to determine whether a patient is at risk for specific diseases. The authors argue that this methodology lacks accuracy, and results in substandard medical care provided to patients of different races. Mintz and Acquaviva understand race as a social construct, so the argument that race can be used to determine genetic risk is flawed. They, instead, call for medical schools to shift the paradigm they use to assess and understand the impact of race and ethnicity and in taking medical histories and documentation in the clinical record.
Notes:: Please note that this article is appropriate as an introductory article for readers with no prior background in these topics.

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Use and Reproduction: This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License

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Acquaviva, Kimberly D., and Mintz, Matthew, "Perspective: Are we teaching racial profiling? The dangers of subjective determinations of race and ethnicity in case presentations" (2010). Medicine and Race: AMS Annotated Bibliography. Brown Digital Repository. Brown University Library. https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:788164/

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Medicine and Race: AMS Annotated Bibliography

This annotated bibliography was created to serve as a resource for medical students, residents, and faculty interested in learning more about how race is used in medicine and how racism results in disparate health outcomes for racial and ethnic minorities. …

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Perspective: Are we teaching racial profiling? The dangers of subjective determinations of race and ethnicity in case presentations