Medicine Grand Rounds feature weekly topic and case-based presentations designed to provide faculty and trainees with up-to-date knowledge about timely issues in internal medicine.

Faculty Name: Khaalisha Ajala, MD

Title of Talk: Rounding while black

Learning Objectives:

1. Define “Rounding While Black”

2. Examine the early history U.S. Health Care system and certain early health & public policies that are linked to current health disparities

3. Examine the unequal distribution of wealth, healthcare access in communities in the U.S.A. and the result of generational health inequity.

4. Discuss the legacy of medical racism and medical mistrust that we encounter on rounds.

5. Ask  “Are we are coded for bias?”

6. Discuss the historical context of Black physicians in U.S. medicine and where we are today.

7. After rounds, we will discuss a path forward, together.