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[3] Creating Brave Spaces for Critical Conversations in Medical Education
10/06/2025
[3] Creating Brave Spaces for Critical Conversations in Medical Education
In this episode, Dr. Saleem Razack and his colleagues discuss the importance of creating brave spaces for critical conversations in medical education, particularly around health equity and institutional betrayal. They explore the emotional labor of healthcare workers, the political nature of advocacy, and the need for activism within public health and medical education. The conversation also touches on the concept of epistemic disobedience and the importance of recognizing and challenging oppressive structures in medical education. In this conversation, Dr. Saleem Razack and his guests explore the complexities of medical education, emphasizing the need for critical thinking, the importance of equity, diversity, and inclusion, and the role of power dynamics in global health. They discuss the necessity of understanding one's positionality as a clinician and the importance of creating brave spaces for dialogue in the medical field. The conversation highlights the challenges and opportunities in addressing systemic issues within healthcare and the importance of fostering critical discussions among medical professionals. Length of episode: 49:08 Resources mentioned: The Foreign Gaze Essays on Global Health Keeping It Political and Powerful: Defining the Structural Determinants of Health , , , Naidu T. Says who? Northern ventriloquism, or epistemic disobedience in global health scholarship. The Lancet Global Health. 2021 Sep 1;9(9):e1332-5. Watson-Creed G. Gaslighting in academic medicine: where anti-Black racism lives. cmaj. 2022 Oct 31;194(42):E1451-4. Contact us
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