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The violence of curriculum: Dismantling systemic racism, colonisation and indigenous erasure within medical education.

Saleem RazackLisa RichardsonSuntosh R Pillay
Published in: Medical education (2024)
Our perspectives converge on the importance of critical consciousness development for culturally safe practice in medical education, acknowledging the need to emphasise a curriculum of shared humanity, introducing the concept of Ubuntu from Southern Africa. Ubuntu can be encapsulated in the phrase 'I am because we are', and it promotes a collective approach to medical education in which there is active solidarity between the profession and the diverse populations which it serves.
Keyphrases
  • medical education
  • primary care
  • healthcare
  • mental health
  • quality improvement
  • genetic diversity