ERIC Number: EJ1385113
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2023-Aug
Pages: 18
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Redressing Injustices: How Women Students Enact Agency in Undergraduate Medical Education
Blalock, A. Emiko; Leal, Dianey R.
Advances in Health Sciences Education, v28 n3 p741-758 Aug 2023
This study presents descriptions of epistemic injustice in the experiences of women medical students and provides accounts about how these students worked to redress these injustices. Epistemic injustice is both the immediate discrediting of an individual's knowledge based on their social identity and the act of persistently ignoring possibilities for other ways of knowing. Using critical narrative interviews and personal reflections over an eight-month period, 22 women students during their first year of medical school described instances when their knowledge and experience was discredited and ignored, then the ways they enacted agency to redress these injustices. Participants described three distinct ways they worked to redress injustices: reclaiming why they belong in medicine, speaking up and calling out the curriculum, and uplifting one another. This study has implications for recognizing medical students as whole individuals with lived histories and experiences and advocates for recognizing medical students' perspectives as valuable sources of knowledge.
Descriptors: Medical Students, Females, Undergraduate Students, Personal Autonomy, Social Justice, Epistemology, Antisocial Behavior, Student Experience, Student Behavior, Group Membership, Communication Strategies, Interpersonal Relationship, Social Support Groups
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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