The medical education community is pushing back against a proposal by the nation’s primary accreditor of medical schools to backtrack on explicit requirements to teach structural competency—or how ...

Physical activity is a cornerstone of musculoskeletal (MSK) health. It reduces pain, improves function and supports recovery from injury.1 Yet, persistent disparities in physical activity and MSK ...

Anil Oza is a general assignment reporter at STAT focused on the NIH and health equity. You can reach him on Signal at aniloza.16. The leading medical school accreditation body in the U.S. has removed ...

For decades, American medicine addressed some of its most persistent problems -- racial, geographic, and economic inequities in health outcomes, unequal treatment, mistrust -- by focusing on the ...

Figure 1 depicts the ways in which implicit bias (including stereotypes) that leads to false assumptions about an individual patient, combined with inattention to systemic and structural factors ...

I could never forget this patient. I knew him well. I was in my second year of a grueling emergency medicine residency, and he came to the ER often. Each time, he was sent from an outpatient clinic ...

Future doctors may no longer be required to learn about how social and economic factors affect health. A major U.S. accreditation group—the Liaison Committee on Medical Education (LCME)—has removed ...

Structural competence, a framework encouraging physicians to recognize the broad forces affecting patients, is yet another valuable analytic concept now facing political pushback. Jeremy A. Greene, ...