Race, Metaphor, and Myth in Academic Medicine

If we truly grasp that unlike early pseudoscientific presumption about racial hierarchy, race is in fact a social construct, we understand that differences in outcomes or health between groups should be attributed to differences in how people are differentially treated vis-a-vis structural oppression or privilege [2]. [...]emphasis on “historic” under-representation shifts focus away from contemporary practices that drive modern segregation in medical education—how under-represented groups remain under-represented even despite calls for diversity. [...]among other concerns, the naming of URM groups turns attention away from non-URM groups. [...]emphasis on representation alone may distract attention away from other processes