How should we do equity, diversity and inclusion work in health professions education?

Rashmi A Kusurkar; Thirusha Naidu; Mohammed Ahmed Rashid

doi:10.12688/mep.19673.1

How should we do equity, diversity and inclusion work in health professions education?

MedEdPublish (2016). 2023 Jun 8:13:31. doi: 10.12688/mep.19673.1. eCollection 2023.

Authors

Rashmi A Kusurkar^{1

2

3}, Thirusha Naidu⁴, Mohammed Ahmed Rashid⁵

Affiliations

¹ Research in Education, Amsterdam UMC location Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, De Boelelaan 1118, 1081HZ, The Netherlands.
² Faculty of Psychology and Education, VU University Amsterdam, LEARN! Research Institute for Learning and Education, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
³ Quality of Care, Amsterdam Public Health, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
⁴ Department of Behavioural Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences University of Kwa Zulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa.
⁵ Faculty of Medical Sciences, University College London, UCL Medical School, London, UK.

Abstract

This is an editorial for the special collection on equity, diversity and inclusion (EDI) for MedEdPublish. In this article, the guest advisors of this collection first reflect on the paradoxes in EDI in health professions education (HPE), then on the importance of recognising the existence of multiple authenticities on the basis of different contexts and settings, and finally encourage authors and readers to reflect on their position on the continuum of EDI work. They conclude the editorial by outlining the direction they wish to set for articles in the collection.

Keywords: Diversity; Equity; Health Professions Education; Inclusion; Medical Education.

Publication types

Editorial

Grants and funding

The author(s) declared that no grants were involved in supporting this work.