New article: The Struggle to Belong for Underrepresented Medical Students

We are celebrating our latest peer reviewed article!

Led by team members Victoria Luong and Rola Ajjawi, the paper presents a narrative review on underrepresented medical students' struggle to belong in medical school.

This review involved revisiting studies from our meta-ethnographic research on the additional work required of these students during medical school.

As "The Struggle to Belong" states:

Attending to the politics of belonging means paying attention to internalizations of forced constructions of self and identity, and dismantling the narrow norms and expectations of being a physician. Widening access to medicine is not enough; underrepresented medical students need to be accepted and respected for their unique identities and contributions to medicine. Students should be given opportunities to construct aspects of themselves in ways that define what matters to them in their medical practice and their humanity.

To read more, you can find the paper here!