Addressing the Underrepresentation of Diverse Skin Tones in Medical Education
Location
Zoom
Start Date
16-3-2023 2:50 PM
End Date
16-3-2023 3:20 PM
Description
Objectives:
- Explore the current disparities of diverse skin tones in popular textbooks, atlases and other materials used in medical and health sciences education.
- Provide credible sources of clinical images with diverse skin tones to supplement existing curriculum resources.
- Demo the library database VisualDX and show how students, faculty & staff can utilize it to find pertinent images with darker skin tones.
Target audience: everybody.
Presentation Type
Presentation
COinS
Mar 16th, 2:50 PM
Mar 16th, 3:20 PM
Addressing the Underrepresentation of Diverse Skin Tones in Medical Education
Zoom
Objectives:
- Explore the current disparities of diverse skin tones in popular textbooks, atlases and other materials used in medical and health sciences education.
- Provide credible sources of clinical images with diverse skin tones to supplement existing curriculum resources.
- Demo the library database VisualDX and show how students, faculty & staff can utilize it to find pertinent images with darker skin tones.
Target audience: everybody.