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How to maintain your identity while navigating predominantly white medical spaces

I am the only Latino resident in my program and I can feel myself code-switching so hard during rounds that I barely recognize my own voice anymore.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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You are fragmenting your sense of self in order to survive and succeed in a system that rewards conformity to white professional norms.

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

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