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When diverse friend groups navigate unequal treatment in medical training

Our friend group of medical students includes people of different races and we're all stressed, but some of us are dealing with additional barriers and microaggressions that others don't see or understand, and it's creating this weird tension where we can't fully support each other because we're not acknowledging the different experiences we're having.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

A community is fragmenting because some members face additional systemic barriers that others cannot see or acknowledge.

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Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Healthcare equity and structural racism in medicine?”

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