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The forest and the trees: Theorizing a Culturally Sustaining Pedagogy for medical education

Year: 2025

Type: article

Abstract: The explicit purpose of medical education is frequently defined as to educate and train physicians who can serve as leaders in providing high-quality, equitable health care for society. Hidden in this explicit purpose is an implicit premise of extraction: those who become physicians are valuable assets who must be separated from society and assimilated into their roles as leaders. Applying Culturally Sustaining Pedagogies as a lens, the authors use Story Cycle methodology to weave personal and literature-based narratives that illuminate, interrogate, and challenge extraction. Finally, they imagine alternative, non-extractive, possibilities for medical education. In doing so, the authors articulate Culturally Sustaining Pedagogy for medical education.

Source: Social Science & Medicine

DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2025.118171

Authors: Hannah L. Kakara Anderson, Justin L. Bullock

Institutions: Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Maastricht University, University of Pennsylvania, University of Washington

Language: English

Topic: Innovations in Medical Education

Subfield: Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health

Field: Medicine

Domain: Health Sciences

SDG: Quality education

Open Access status: hybrid

Estimated APC paid: $3,800