Anti-Racism: Tools for Change wil help you recognize and overcome biases adversely affecting patient care, enabling you to build stronger relationships with patients from varied backgrounds -- ultimately improving the level of care you provide. This course is free throughout April 2024.
Your colleagues are doing incredible work to address health equity issues and serve minority patients. We're putting their voices at the center, because it's their work that paves the way for change.
"It's really important that we recognize how diversity, equity, and inclusiveness impacts not only our members, but it impacts our communities. And how best can we care for those if we do not make ourselves aware of diversity, equity, and inclusiveness and making sure that everything we do – from our policies, from our recommendations as the Academy – those things need to be done through a DEI lens." – Dr. Ada Stewart, MD, FAAFP
"This is a way to be an advocate for your patients and for your specialty at a much greater level. The Commission and the Commission work that you're going to be able to do will truly have lasting impacts not only for your patients, but also for our specialty as a whole." – Dr. Kamini Greer, MD, MPH, FAAFP
An important way for AAFP to honor NMHM is to recognize that we still have work to do to address racism and inequalities in patient care. We are focused on improving existing health care processes that negatively affect minority communities. Our advocacy is critical to ensure the health care system works for everyone.
Browse the topics below for resources you can use to support your practice.
Dr. Cleveland Piggott, president of the Colorado Academy of Family Physicians and associate professor and vice chair for diversity, equity, inclusion at the University of Colorado Department of Family Medicine, discusses the importance of DEI in the medical field.
It is an AAFP policy priority to address the social determinants of health. Participate in advocacy efforts in your community using these health equity issue briefs covering social deterinamants of health including food insecurity, housing instability, transportation, and socioeconomic stauts.
To give family physicians tools to address social determinants of health and counter longstanding misconceptions about race and medicine, the Academy has developed action guides. Clinicians are encouraged to share these resources with other members of their health care team.
FPM, a peer-reviewed journal published by AAFP delved into the importance of a patient's experience with their care, and how to address the biggest issues that create patient dissatisfaction or frustration.