Medical Schools Have Historically Been Wrong on Race

By Damon Tweedy, MD

In this New York Times op-edDamon Tweedy, MD, associate professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences, shares some of his experiences as a Black medical student and doctor at Duke and provides insights about harmful and persistent racism and related myths.

He argues that addressing racial health disparities starts by changing how medical students are taught the interplay between race and health.

For far too long, medical schools have neglected to tackle the full complexity of race in their curriculums. And two problematic, longstanding prejudices have filled that vacuum and impeded progress.
Damon Tweedy, MD, Associate Professor of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences

Read the full op-ed.

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