By Onye Nnorom, Co-Founder, Black Health Education Collaborative
For the first time in history, medical students across Canada will have to learn about anti-Black racism and Black health!
The Medical Council of Canada just released Black Health learning objectives (which focus on anti-Black racism as driver of inequities and mistreatment in care). This will inform the national medical exams! It is our hope that it will improve patient care!
I am proud to have co-lead this work, along with Dr. OmiSoore Dryden (PhD) and Dr. Barbara Hamilton Hinch as part of our work with the Black Health Education Collaborative and grateful for the input from various Black scholars, doctors, nurses and providers who contributed to our Delphi method study on Black health competencies, as that also informed this work!
Gratitude to the team at the Medical Council of Canada for embarking on this multi-year journey during the pandemic!
The learning objectives… (heads up - these do not focus on specific diseases or conditions - e.g. diabetes, depression, HIV, hypertension, sickle cell disease etc are not named here because that would come in elsewhere)…which focus on the concepts and impacts of anti-Black racism can be found on the Medical Council of Canada page.
For info about BHEC’s Black Health Primer, which is an online teaching resource for medical students and professionals on Black health (including the medical conditions like those listed above, and more) go to the Black Health Education Collaborative page
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