Our Goals

Raise Awareness
  • Encourage physicians, physician organizations, and medical institutions to publicly recognize racism as a public health issue.
  • Promote medical students’ involvement in local and national movements to end racism and police brutality.
  • Advocate for funding and promotion of research on the health effects of racism.
End racial discrimination
  • Demand that academic medical centers serve the healthcare needs of their local communities, particularly the needs of patients of color.
  • Promote the allocation of funding for research on unconscious bias and racism in the delivery of medical care.
  • Ensure equal access to medical care by advocating for the establishment of a single-payer national health insurance program.
Prepare Future Physicians
  • Improve the recruitment and support of Black, Latino, and Native American medical students.
  • Promote the recruitment, retention, and hiring of Black, Latino, and Native American physicians in medical school teaching, research, and leadership positions.
  • Develop national medical school curricular standards that include information about the history of racism in medicine, unconscious racial bias in medical decision-making, and strategies for dismantling structural racism.

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“The medical student die-ins today are another sign that the long-building racial injustices in this country will no longer be tolerated. A national consensus that the system needs to change is growing. Ever since Mike Brown’s death in August, the people of Ferguson have been in the streets daily calling for justice. Following the grand jury announcement in Ferguson and then the Staten Island decision regarding Eric Garner’s murder, people have been protesting regularly across the nation.

I am so proud to see this generation of health professional students taking a stand on institutional racism and police violence. They are demonstrating the recognition that their job extends beyond the clinic door to addressing what happens in the community. Disease does not happen in isolation. It is greatly impacted by what are called social determinants such as education, housing, the environment, the food we eat and the water we drink, employment, stress levels and more. And these determinants are created by political and economic systems that have little regard for human life.”

-via Popular Resistance

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