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:

  1. Explore the current disparities of diverse skin tones in popular textbooks, atlases and other materials used in medical and health sciences education.
  2. Provide credible sources of clinical images with diverse skin tones to supplement existing curriculum resources.
  3. 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

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Addressing the Underrepresentation of Diverse Skin Tones in Medical Education

Zoom

Objectives:

  1. Explore the current disparities of diverse skin tones in popular textbooks, atlases and other materials used in medical and health sciences education.
  2. Provide credible sources of clinical images with diverse skin tones to supplement existing curriculum resources.
  3. 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.