Pioneering Physicians
This man became the first African American to earn a medical degree, though he had to go to Scotland to do it in 1837.
Who is James McCune Smith?
This African American physician is known as the "Father of the Blood Bank."
Who is Dr. Charles Drew?
Founded in 1868 in Washington D.C., this school was one of the first Black medical schools.
What is Howard University College of Medicine?
This federal health study, infamous for ethical violations, tracked untreated syphilis in Black men for 40 years.
What is the Tuskegee Syphilis Study?
Franciscan Children's has this number of mandatory DEB trainings. (List them all)
What is 5?
Unconscious Bias, Unconscious Bias 2.0, Addressing Health Equity for Patient Equality, Bullying & Harassment, and DEB Skills for Managers.
The first black woman to receive a medical degree, she graduated in 1864.
Who is Rebecca Lee Crumpler?
Her cells, taken without consent in 1951, have led to major medical breakthroughs like vaccines and cancer research.
Who is Henrietta Lacks?
This medical college in Nashville was founded in 1876 and remains one of the two surviving Black medical schools post-Flexner Report.
What is Meharry Medical College?
This university was the site of both groundbreaking Black health leadership and an infamous syphilis experiment.
What is Tuskegee University?
At Franciscan Children's, prohibitive behaviors such as verbal and written references to sexual conduct, comments about an individual's body or sexual activity, unwelcomed leering, and whistling are all examples of this?
What is Sexual Harassment?
This African American surgeon performed the first successful open-heart surgery in 1893.
Who is Dr. Daniel Hale Williams?
This physician's research led to routine sickle cell screening for newborns.
Who is Dr. Marilyn Hughes Gaston?
Founded in 1975, this Atlanta-based medical school focuses on training Black physicians.
What is Morehouse School of Medicine?
This woman was the first African American to graduate from Yale Medical School.
Who is Dr. Beatrix McCleary Hamburg?
This is someone who recognizes a problem and/or witnesses bullying, harassment, discrimination, or inappropriate behavior, and then chooses to take action and intervene.
What is an Active Bystander?
The first Black female surgeon in the South, she later became the first Black woman elected to a state legislature in Tennessee.
Who is Dr. Dorothy Lavinia Brown?
He invented an automatic surgical clam that helped control bleeding during operations.
Who is Dr. Charles Drew?
This 1910 report led to the closure of all but two Black Medical schools.
What is the Flexner Report?
He became the first African American U.S. Surgeon General in 1998
Who is Dr. David Satcher?
Access to healthy foods, level of education, transportation, and employment are all examples of these non-medical factors that influence a person's health and well-being.
What are Social Determinants of Health?
This pediatric neurosurgeon became world-renowned for separating conjoined twins joined at the head in 1987.
Who is Dr. Ben Carson?
This organization was founded in 1895 by Black physicians excluded from the AMA.
What is the National Medical Association (NMA)?
The first Black-owned and operated hospital in the U.S. opened in Chicago in 1891.
What is Provident Hospital?
This key reason is why increasing the number of Black doctors remains vital to public health.
What is reducing healthcare disparities/improving trust and access in underserved communities?
This is a person/employee who makes a good-faith report regarding actual or potential activities that are illegal, unsafe, or fraudulent and violate legal, state, or federal program requirements.
What is a Whistleblower?