Academic medicine represents a unique and necessary platform from which to address
professional and societal inequities. Undergraduate medical education and postgraduate …

As academic pediatricians, unique opportunities exist within departments, medical centers,
and universities to renew institutional values and commitments, forge new policies, and …

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion That Matter Academic medical institutions' idea of addressing
institutional and systemic racism often begins and ends with naming a diversity-equity …

Racism manifests in several forms—internalized, interpersonal, subversive, and
institutionalized among them. The constructs that define and guide the various professional …

The mission of pediatric medical education is to train the workforce who will provide and
innovate child healthcare, including addressing healthcare inequities for children and …

Over the last several years, academic pediatrics has made a concerted effort to address
diversity and inclusion, certainly accelerated by the heightened national discourse and …

A remarkable and compelling editorial 1 entitled “Learning from the Past and Working in the
Present to Create an Antiracist Future for Academic Medicine” was published in our journal …

Today, most agree that the health care system in the United States is in need of reform and
that existing health disparities have huge implications for both that system and society as a …

Compelled by the growing recognition of the burden and harm perpetrated by sustained
inequality and explicit and implicit biases on our patients, trainees, and colleagues, the …

Impact Institutional racism exists within Academic Pediatrics within the United States, and it
affects our work as researchers, clinicians, and educators. Confronting institutional racism is …