Systemic anti-Black racism is deeply entrenched in health systems and all aspects of medical training -from admissions and assessment, to the everyday discrimination experienced by Black medical students and physicians. [1][2][3] Medical schools in Canada have directly upheld anti-Black racism through institutional policies and practices that exclude Black people from the profession of medicine. A direct example of this is Queen's University's official ban on the admission of Black students that was enforced between 1918 and 1965 -and revoked only in 2018. 4 Although Black people constitute 3.5% of Canada's total population, they continue to be critically underrepresented in the population of practising physicians and medical students, 5 and this historical and ongoing exclusion of Black people from medical education has direct implications for the quality of patient care and health outcomes. [6][7][8][9] Institutional commitment of medical schools to prioritize combatting anti-Black racism and promote racial justice is lacking, especially in Canada, where the historical and ongoing legacy of systemic anti-Black racism has largely been minimized. 10 After the widely publicized murder of George Floyd in May 2020 and subsequent Black Lives Matter protests, medical schools -like many public and private organizations around the world -released
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