Does clinical exposure to different skin tones during training improve diagnostic ability?
Regardless of the predominant patient skin colour participants saw in their practice, participants were worse at diagnosing pathology in SOC. This highlights that clinical exposure to SOC is not sufficient to mitigate clinicians' inferior diagnostic ability in non-white skin tones. Therefore, effort must be made to improve the diversity of skin colours represented in medical education resources, to improve clinicians' familiarity with pathology in different skin tones and minimize the risk of patients being misdiagnosed due to their skin colour.
Authors
- Amir H. Sam (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9599-9069)
- Bethan Trigg (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7037-4839)
- Nariell Morrison (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6961-0032)
- Celia Brown (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7526-0793)
- Richard Hankins
- Albert M. Potts
- Eleanor J. Hothersall (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9956-4863)
- Anna Coulson (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0007-3451-579X)
- Yusra Shammoon (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2630-4443)
- M. C. F. Pain
- Olamide Oguntimehin (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0007-8598-8730)
Institutions
- University of Dundee (GB)
- General Medical Council (GB)
- Imperial College London (GB)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Medical Education
- Published
- 2025-12-12
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1111/medu.70088
- Primary Topic
- Clinical Reasoning and Diagnostic Skills
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00
Funders
- University of Dundee