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Mitigating racial disparities in healthcare : The critical need for representation of diverse skin tones in UK medical education

2025-08-05

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<h4>Background: </h4> Racial disparities in healthcare diagnostics are a persistent challenge, particularly in the field of dermatology, where people of colour (POC) may experience delayed diagnosis or misdiagnosis due to challenges of physicians being unable to identify the unique symptoms and presentations. Medical education contributes to these health disparities as a lack of teaching on various skin tones redu...

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Literature Corpus work: 960154a2-6959-5dc0-a046-a8a1056621cc
DOI: 10.12688/mep.20847.1

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