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MMS Health Policy and Directives regarding racism adopted by the House of Delegates on 12/05/2020. Available at https://www.massmed.org/policies/.
“The Massachusetts Medical Society recognizes that racism is a public health crisis.
The Massachusetts Medical Society acknowledges that racism is pervasive in all sectors and industries, including health care, and has detrimental effects
on MMS members and the public in Massachusetts.
The Massachusetts Medical Society acknowledges racism is a social determinant of health and is a root cause of health inequities and negative health outcomes including illness and premature
death.
The Massachusetts Medical Society is committed to being an antiracist organization and will work to promote equity and racial justice by prioritizing antiracism in its policies, strategic plan, governance, and activities. The MMS affirms
that racial inequities in income and wealth are a pressing public health problem.
The MMS will advocate for policies at the state and national levels that aim to simultaneously reduce racial wealth and income inequality and health disparities.
The MMS will advocate for funding for research on the most effective means by which to achieve racial health equity.
The MMS will collate and report annually on its advocacy that promotes equity and anti-racism.”
MMS Committee on Diversity established.
MMS Minority Affairs Section established.
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MMS Antiracism Resources: Available at https://www.massmed.org/diversityresources/.
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Tuskegee, Racism, Healthcare Access and Vaccine Hesitancy. Available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jSHzDHboP5g.
Discussants: Professor Susan M. Reverby, author of Examining Tuskegee: The Infamous Syphilis Study and Its Legacy, and Michael Curry, Esq, President and CEO of the Massachusetts League of Community Health Centers and Past President
of the Boston Branch of the NAACP. Introduction by Alfred DeMaria, MD, President of the Public Health Museum, past State Epidemiologist, and past chair of the MMS Committee on History.
Brandeis professor Wangui M. Muigai served as the History Fellow at the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists. Introductions by Boston Medical Library President and past MMS President Richard Pieters, MD, and by Alfred DeMaria, MD.
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“City of Wealth: The Organized Abandonment of Boston City Hospital” by Madeline Stewart and Punit Matta (MMS Committee on History Medical Student Essay 2021 contest winner). Available at https://www.massmed.org/Governance-and-Leadership/Committees,-Task-Forces-and-Sections/Medical-Student-History-Essay-Award--Madeline-Stewart-and-Punit-Matta-(pdf)/.
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White Coats 4 Black Lives: Racial Justice Report Card, 2019: Full Report with Supplementary Materials. Available at https://whitecoats4blacklives.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/RJRC-2019-Full-Report-Final-8.28.19.pdf.
This report discusses Harvard Medical School students’ modern response to MMS member and HMS dean Oliver Wendell Holmes for his dismissal of the first three African American students at HMS in 1850.
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“Changing the Conversation Around Health. The 2019 MMS Annual Oration,” Sandro Galea, MD, MPH, DrPH. Available at https://www.massmed.org/Continuing-Education-and-Events/Online-CME/Courses/Changing-Around-Health---2019-MMS-Annual-Oration/Changing-the-Conversation-Around-Health---2019-MMS-Annual-Oration/.
CME credit available.
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Gloria White-Hammond, MD, Executive Director of My Sister’s Keeper. “Conflict Violence against Women: Moral and Ethical Obligations of Physicians. The 2010 MMS Annual Oration.”
Available at https://link.videoplatform.limelight.com/media/?mediaId=6d9a0c0dc98b477cba93e0e20c223e05&width=540&height=321&playerForm=LVPPlayer&embedMode=html&htmlPlayerFilename=limelightjs-player.js&orgid=05b41786e5824a67bc8b08608cd74c07.
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Underrepresented in Medicine Scholarship Program. Past MMS President Joseph Heyman, MD, established a fund in 2022 to support medical students of color with financial need. Available at https://amafoundation.org/heyman/.
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“Teaching Health Care Disparities in Continuing Medical Education: A Case Report.”
Available at https://journals.lww.com/kidney360/fulltext/2023/07000/teaching_health_care_disparities_in_continuing.19.aspx.
One of many articles by J. Kevin Tucker, MD, nephrologist, member of the Committee on Publications of the Massachusetts Medical Society, Vice President of Education, Mass General Brigham.
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“Identification of Racial Inequities in Access to Specialized Inpatient Heart Failure Care at an Academic Medical Center” by members of the Brigham and Women’s Internal Medicine House staff. Available at https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/CIRCHEARTFAILURE.119.006214.
