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Selected AMA webinars
Medical Racism and Indigenous Peoples
Learning Objectives
1. Explain how the dark legacy of discrimination and deliberate oppression of Indigenous Peoples has led to present-day disparities across the world
2. Describe how medicine has held some white men to high esteem, even when they harbored significant racist and sexist notions
3. Identify the role of Indigenous knowledge systems in shaping much of modern medicine today, yet experiencing erasure from the mainstream
Prioritizing Equity: For Us, By Us: Advocating for Change in Native Health Policy
Medical student organizers and policy advocates will join us to discuss increasing access to care in native communities through health policy and improving care within the Indian Health Services.
Psychosocial and Cultural Considerations for Providing Health Care to Immigrant and Refugee Populations
Learning Objectives
1. Explain how the current state at the border is informed by historical immigration injustices
2. Describe how physiological and psychological trauma show up among immigrant and refugee populations as a result of the violence and injustices experienced during migration, at the border, during the resettlement process and across the lifecourse thereafter
3. Identify the role of trauma-informed, culturally responsive care for refugee, asylee, and immigrant populations and how it can be operationalized in clinical practice