Wednesday, December 10, Students at more than 50 medical schools – in New York, St. Louis, Philadelphia, Boston, Cleveland, Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Washington, D.C., and elsewhere – will protest lack of indictments for police killings in Ferguson, Mo., and New York, and to spotlight racial bias as a public health issue. We as medical students feel that this is an important time for medical institutions to respond to the violence and race-related trauma, which affect our communities and the patients we serve. We feel it is essential to begin a conversation about our role in addressing the explicit and implicit discrimination and racism in our communities and reflect on the systemic biases embedded in our medical education curricula, clinical learning environments, and administrative decision-making. We believe these discussions are needed at academic medical centers nationwide. Who Medical students When 3 p.m. Eastern Time (check local actions; list below), Wednesday, Dec. 10, International Human Rights Day Why Racial bias and violence are not exclusively a problem of the criminal justice system. As we have seen in Ferguson, Mo., New York, and countless other places, bias kills, sickens, and provides inadequate care. As medical students, we must take a stand against the oppression of our black and brown patients, colleagues, friends, and family. By standing together at medical schools nationwide, we hope to demonstrate that the medical student community views racial violence as a public health crisis. We are ##whitecoatsforblacklives Where Medical schools across the country, including but not limited to: Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York Boston University School of Medicine, Boston Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland Charles R. Drew/UCLA Medical Education Program, Los Angeles Chicago Medical School, Rosalind Franklin University, Chicago Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons , New York David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles Duke University School of Medicine, Durham Frank H. Netter School of Medicine at Quinnipiac, North Haven George Washington School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Washington, D.C. Harvard Medical School, Boston Howard University College of Medicine, Washington DC Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai , New York Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore Keck School of Medicine of USC, Los Angeles Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine, Chicago Meharry Medical College, Nashville Michigan State University College of Human Medicine, East Lansing New York Medical College, Valhalla New York University School of Medicine, New York Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia Pritzker School of Medicine, University of Chicago, Chicago Rush Medical College, Chicago Rutgers New Jersey Medical School, Newark Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, New Brunswick Sidney Kimmel Medical College at Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia SUNY Downstate College of Medicine , Brooklyn Temple University School of Medicine, Philadelphia Touro University California College of Medicine, Vallejo Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston University of Arizona College of Medicine, Phoenix University of California Davis School of Medicine, Sacramento University of California, San Diego School of Medicine , San Diego University of California at San Francisco School of Medicine, San Francisco University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati University of Illinois College of Medicine , Chicago University of Illinois College of Medicine at Urbana Champaign, Urbana University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore University of Massachusetts Medical School , Worcester University of Medicine and Health Sciences, St. Kitts University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel Hill University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine, Richmond Warren Alpert Medical School at Brown University, Providence Washington University School of Medicine , St. Louis Weill Cornell Medical College, New York Yale School of Medicine, New Haven]
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