Med students commit to ‘uprooting the structural violence within healthcare’

Med students commit to ‘uprooting the structural violence within healthcare’

• Also pledge to recognize inequalities ‘rooted in … the gender binary’

"Students enrolled at the University of Minnesota Medical School recently recited an anti-racism oath as part of their continuing education, Alpha News reports...

• ...included a land acknowledgment and a pledge to “honor all Indigenous ways of healing” while focusing on “healing our planet.”
• The medical students also said as part of the oath that they “commit to uprooting the legacy and perpetuation of structural violence deeply embedded within the healthcare system.”
• “We recognize inequalities built by past and present traumas rooted in white supremacy, colonialism, the gender binary, ableism, and all forms of oppression.”..."