UCSF School of Medicine Appoints Leadership Team for Three-Year Anti-Oppressive Curriculum Initiative
Sheyda Aboii speaks to her fellow medical students, including, background left to right, Arun Burra, Andrés Calvillo and Avery Thompson and the community, at a White Coats for Black Lives (WC4BL) Teach-in, which set out to “model an explicitly anti-racist healthcare education that elevates queer, disabled, formerly criminalized, and undocumented people of color in the communities and hospitals within which we work,” on the 4th anniversary of WC4BL in 2018. Photo by Susan Merrell.
he UCSF School of Medicine has launched a three-year initiative to expand the social justice pillar within the Bridges Curriculum. This work is part of the School of Medicine's Differences Matter 2025 initiative.
As part of the response to ongoing episodes of police violence and subsequent widespread protests, along with the COVID-19 pandemic highlighting the toxic effects of systemic racism in the United States, this initiative aims to move the Bridges curriculum in a more anti-racist and anti-oppressive direction.