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HPE Journal Club on Race and Racism: What Strategies Can We Adopt to Address This Issue in Health Professions Education?

24 Jan 2022 | 12:30 am - 2:00 pm

Date: 24-January-2022 (Monday)
Time: 12:30pm – 2:00pm
Duration: 1.5 Hours
Training Platform: Microsoft Teams

Facilitators:
Professor Dr Vishna Devi Nadarajah
Professor Dr Er Hui Meng
Associate Professor Dr Pathiyil Ravi Shankar

Diversity, inclusivity, and equity (DIE) are receiving renewed attention in health professions education and in access to healthcare. Race is an important component of the debate on DIE. The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has once again highlighted the importance of these issues due to differences in morbidity and mortality among different groups in the same country, region. As a multiracial and multi-ethnic country, these issues are important in the Malaysian context. As health professions educators, we should be aware of recent developments in this important area and how these issues can be introduced in the health professions curriculum.

The aim of the session:-

a) To create awareness and generate debate on issues of race in medical education and in access to healthcare.

b) To examine differences in COVID-19 related impact, morbidity, and mortality according to ethnicity, race, and immigrant status

The four articles that have been shared. Other published articles on issues related to race and DIE in health professions education and in healthcare. As the topic is vast we will not be able to address all aspects of this complex issue.

Reading Materials:-
a) Race and racism: are we too comfortable with comfort?
b) Better for us all — recent learning on how the Royal College of General Practitioners can reduce racism
c) Ethnic and racial disparities in COVID19-related deaths: counting the trees, hiding the forest
d) Ethnic inclusion in medicine: the ineffectiveness of the ‘Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic’ metric to measure progress

Questions/ Consideration
1) Is race an important issue influencing access to healthcare in Malaysia?
2) How important is race and issues of DIE in health professions education in Malaysia?
3) Is DIE adequately addressed in the health professions education curricula in the country?
4) Has the severity, morbidity, and mortality due to COVID-19 in the country been influenced by demographic and personal characteristics? Why?