Course Directors: Dr. Carmen Gutierrez & Dr. Tamara Saint-Surin

Fall 2022, 3.0 credits

The Racial Equity in Medicine Elective (REME) is designed to give students in the UNC School of Medicine an opportunity to learn about racism and its manifestation in the health care system. Throughout the semester, the course provides students with an understanding of racism in all forms (internalized, interpersonal, institutional, and structural). Based on this understanding, students will devise independent or group projects that aim to dismantle the systems of oppression built into their own institution. In addition to their group projects, students will engage with occassional readings and will hear from physicians within the UNC system who are undertaking work to dismantle racism in health care.

The course will begin on July 17, starting with an intensive 2-day workshop led by the Racial Equity Institute (REI, July 17 and 18) that students will attend along with other community members and Allied Health students and faculty. Throughout the semester, the course will build on the foundation offered by the REI workshop about identifying, understanding, and dismantling institutional racism. We will do this through occasional short readings, interactions with professors and healthcare professionals who are experts in racial equity matters,  and the opportunity to complete an independent or group project that aims to dismantle racism within our own institution. This application will be used to give the faculty instructors an opportunity to learn a little bit about you before the semester begins, and to select students for the class in the event that more students sign up than we have space for.

Please sign up by Friday, July 2. We will inform you of your selection by Monday, July 5.

For more information about past REME courses, please visit: http://reme.web.unc.edu
For more information about REI and the workshop, please visit: https://www.racialequityinstitute.org/