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Socializing in Medical School: Evaluating Our Racial Comfort Zones

by Mariam Shalaby

I came across a photo on social media of some classmates that appeared almost identical to another one I had seen months ago -- beaming medical students crowded together against a brick wall of a campus apartment. Déjà vu. But there was one difference. Nearly all the students in this picture were white, whereas all the students in the older picture were non-white. 

May 23, 2022
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