PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Dhurgshaarna Shanmugavadivel
AU  - Danilo Buonsenso
AU  - Kaylita Chantiluke
AU  - Michelle Arora
TI  - Importance and impact of diversity in paediatric medical education
AID  - 10.1136/archdischild-2020-320796
DP  - 2021 Sep 06
TA  - Archives of disease in childhood - Education & practice edition
PG  - edpract-2020-320796
4099  - http://ep.bmj.com/content/early/2021/09/06/archdischild-2020-320796.short
4100  - http://ep.bmj.com/content/early/2021/09/06/archdischild-2020-320796.full
AB  - Despite the increasing diversity of the UK population, we continue to see inequalities in health outcomes in patients of ethnic minorities. Unfortunately, this increasing diversity is not reflected in educational resources, which often continue to feature few images of patients with darker skin tones. Given the lack of diversity in these resources, it is unsurprising that healthcare professionals find it challenging recognising, diagnosing and managing presentations of clinical conditions in darker skinned patients. The development of new online, accessible image banks of medical conditions in different skin tones, such as Skin Deep, aims to facilitate increasing diversity in educational materials and hence improve delivery of equal standards of care to all patients.