Mapping the Discursive Landscape of Antiracism and Social Justice in Medical Education

• In Event: Policy, Structural, and Institutional Issues in Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

Abstract

This study examines anti-racism and social justice within medical education. Using critical discourse analysis, we explore how anti-racism, diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI), and social justice have been positioned over time, including framing problems to be addressed, purported values and goals, and implications for action and social change. We explore several institutional forms of knowledge production and professional meaning-making, including medical education blogs and newsletters, top-tier academic journals for medical education, and professional medical associations focusing on medical education. Drawing on discourses of anti-racism, DEI, and social justice within these realms of medical education offers a window into the structural, institutional, and organizational mechanisms through which narratives of medical education practice are created and situated within frameworks of social change.

Authors

• Tonya Kneff-Chang, University of Michigan - Ann Arbor

• Karri Grob, University of Michigan - Ann Arbor