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I need to vent for 2 seconds. I was on a call re: curriculum as it pertains to social justice and health care disparities. After brainstorming different ways we could implement these topics someone asked "how can we get buy in?". The first person responded.... 1/6
"Anything with a grade attached to it incentivizes med students"...The second person answered...."maybe when you ask questions about this kind of stuff make it a bonus question...everyone wants bonus points and it'll will help people care and want to look at the material.." 2/6
ummm excuse me. I muted and unmuted my mic a few times debating if I wanted to say something...I did. Here are my thoughts: If caring about the social aspect of a persons health needs to be "incentivized" we have a MAJOR problem. 3/6
You cannot be a good physician & not care about a persons whole being. If you don't at baseline care whether or not they can afford the treatment you prescribed. Or if they are uncomfortable with physicians who don't look like them... there is a problem. 4/6
This is NOT "bonus" material. This is the very foundation of medicine. & while some medical students might need an incentive to care...this is important to people like me because it's our everyday life. It's what I think about when my grandma goes to the doctor. 5/6
It's me laying in the hospital bed getting ready to deliver my child knowing I'm way more likely to die during child birth than my white counterparts. This isn't BONUS. It's not an option. It at the core of providing competent care to our patients. That is all. 6/6
