Perspectives

Systemic Racism and the International Medical Graduate: Are We Complicit?

Authors: Sarat Kuppachi, MBBS, MD, Alka Walter, MBBS, MD, Harris Naina, MBBS, MD, Manish Suneja, MBBS, MD

Abstract

As international medical graduates (IMGs), we followed the deaths of Black Americans Ahmaud Arbery, Breanna Taylor, George Floyd, and others to question how complicit we are in having implicit biases favoring White over Black Americans. As we acknowledge the issue of structural racism, rooted in centuries of discrimination, that also has pervaded medical institutions, there is renewed attention in the medical community toward unbiased health care, a basic human need.1,2

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