Medical education
Does clinical exposure to different skin tones during training improve diagnostic ability?
Yusra Shammoon, Anna Coulson, Bethan Trigg, Nariell Morrison, Adam Potts, Moira Pain, Olamide Oguntimehin, Eleanor J Hothersall-Davies, Richard Hankins, Celia A Brown, Amir H Sam
Published: 202510.1111/medu.70088
Abstract
BACKGROUND: Previous studies have shown that medical students demonstrate poorer performance when diagnosing pathology in skin of colour (SOC) compared to white skin (WS); it is important to understand the reasons underpinning this. If not addressed,…
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