E ducation on health inequities has long been valued by learners and educators alike. This has taken different forms at different schools and residency programs with the use of a… Click to show full abstract
E ducation on health inequities has long been valued by learners and educators alike. This has taken different forms at different schools and residency programs with the use of a wide range of terms to describe programs over the years. Healthcare inequities are Bwicked problems^, characterized by incomplete, contradictory, or complex systems with solutions that are not simple. In this edition of the Journal of General Internal Medicine, four papers explore concepts related to educating students or resident physicians to tackle the wicked problems in our health systems resulting from bias or related to inequities in health and health care.
               
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