Chelsea C Omeni-Nzewuihe , 2025-05-14 09:21:00
Antiracism should be an established part of healthcare education—an idea explored in Majid’s article.1 Discriminatory biases often perpetuate as senior doctors pass them down to their trainees who absorb them as truth.A commonly used example of discriminatory bias is thinking that pain tolerance varies among different ethnicities. This can be seen playing out on labour wards, with patients from ethnic minority backgrounds reporting that their requests for painkillers were denied or delayed because health professionals “dismissed or minimised” their reports of pain.2 The professionals charged with caring for these patients are likely to have been responsible for educating and influencing students training under them, thus perpetuating the bias. Minimisation of patient experiences compromises individual care, but more systemically erodes trust in our healthcare systems.In Majid’s article, a white colleague who witnessed a racist comment says that she understood that what was happening was not right but did not know what…
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Antiracism in healthcare education: moving from theory to practice
