I can’t assume all our residents know the history of racial injustice in this country, let alone the historic racism in medicine. So the curriculum includes webinars on race and health and a discussion of the story of Henrietta Lacks. (Everyone in medicine knows HeLa cells, but many of them don’t know about their namesake, a woman whose life vividly illustrates medical racism and its consequences.) And our residents view Unnatural Causes, a seven-hour PBS documentary about socioeconomic and racial disparities in healthcare in America and their root causes.
