RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Can Family Medicine's Counterculture History Help Shape an Anti-Racist Future?
JF The Journal of the American Board of Family
                Medicine
JO J Am Board Fam Med
FD American Board of Family Medicine
SP 169
OP 172
DO 10.3122/jabfm.2022.01.210295
VO 35
IS 1
A1 Sturges, Daytheon
A1 Patterson, Davis G.
A1 Bennett, Ian M.
A1 Cawse-Lucas, Jeanne
YR 2022
UL http://www.jabfm.org/content/35/1/169.abstract
AB Family medicine prides itself on community engagement and has embraced its counterculture roots. After the racial and social reckoning of 2020, including the COVID-19 pandemic and the Black Lives Matters movement, family medicine, as a specialty, must embrace anti-racism as a core value to meet community needs. This article reflects on the foundational tenets of family medicine's origin. It highlights the current disparities regarding professional representation while offering equitable, intentional, and collaborative approaches to move toward and achieve anti-racism within the specialty, medical education, and the community.