What is Race Equity Month?
The Council of Deans of Health has dedicated a month to exploring issues around racism in healthcare education. As a sector, we still have a long way to go to ensure that both our academic leaders and students we recruit reflect the breadth of our society.
Webinars and Podcasts from Race Equity Month 2024
- Webinar: How do we attract the next generation of academics from diverse backgrounds? | Tue 12 Nov | 15:00-16:00
Currently academics teaching in nursing, midwifery and allied health professionals courses do not reflect the ethnic diversity of the student or general population. Speakers in this webinar will give their ideas on how to encourage more minoritised students to pursue an academic career, and how to develop a more diverse academic workforce. Click here to find out more and register to the webinar.
- Podcast: AHP and anti-racism report: hidden curriculum | Out on Wed 6 Nov
In this podcast, we will speak to Dr Pamina Mitter, Dr Chris Kowalski and Robyn Stiger about their innovative project to develop an interprofessional simulation course for medical and nursing students with reflective scenarios around lived experiences of racism in practice.
- Podcast: Simulated practice learning and anti-racism | More information coming out soon
Blogs from Race Equity Month 2024
- A golden thread: Anti-Racism across the Strategic Policy Groups by CoDH
This blog captures how EDI has been embedded across the workstreams of our different strategic policy groups (SPGs) over the past year and our commitment to ensure an EDI perspective is central to the work agendas for the upcoming year.
- Diverse Dermatology by Danny Clegg, London South Bank University
This blog will be on a project that is being used as part of the curriculum in Wales, and the premise of the programme is built around inequalities and inequities in healthcare. Danny taught the history of how human skin has developed through an anti-racist lens, using the story of melanin in evolution. It leads into how healthcare has framed and perpetuated the idea of the perfect skin model as “caucasian” with little to no diversity in the images used in education, similarly with information available to patients.
- Inclusive approaches to practice education by Noor Nixon, UWE Bristol
- How CARIN is supporting inclusive and accessible clinical academic careers | More information coming out soon
This blog will explore how CARIN (Clinical Academic Roles and Career Pathways Implementation Network) is supporting inclusive and accessible clinical academic careers, as well as its key EDI principles that are authentically embedded in CARIN’s work programmes, activities and governance structure.
- Intersection with neurodiversity | More information coming out soon
- Student perspectives on peer support and allyship in anti-racism| More information coming out soon
This blog will discuss a project and resources being developed that will be available to healthcare students on the NHS Learning Hub. The blog will have a focus on workforce culture and behaviour change through training resources that address the root cause of racism and discrimination.
Since our first Race Equity Month in 2021, we have continued to share a series of events, podcasts, videos and blogs. Catch up with some of our previous events/webinars by clicking here.