RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Importance and impact of diversity in paediatric medical education
JF Archives of disease in childhood - Education & practice edition
JO Arch Dis Child Educ Pract Ed
FD BMJ Publishing Group Ltd and Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health
SP edpract-2020-320796
DO 10.1136/archdischild-2020-320796
A1 Dhurgshaarna Shanmugavadivel
A1 Danilo Buonsenso
A1 Kaylita Chantiluke
A1 Michelle Arora
YR 2021
UL http://ep.bmj.com/content/early/2021/09/06/archdischild-2020-320796.abstract
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.