The America Medical and Psychological Associations are woke

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1. Embed racial & social justice in AMA enterprise, culture, systems, policies, practices
Build the AMA’s capacity to understand and operationalize anti-racism equity strategies via training and tool development
Ensure equitable structures, processes and accountability in the AMA’s workforce, contracts and budgeting, communications and publishing
Integrate trauma-informed lens and approaches
Assess organizational change (culture, policy, process) over time

2. Build alliances, share power with historically marginalized & minoritized physicians & other stakeholders
Develop structures and processes to consistently center the experiences and ideas of historically marginalized (women, LGBTQ+, people with disabilities, International Medical Graduates) and minoritized (Black, Indigenous, Latinx, Asian and other people of color) physicians
Establish a coalition of multidisciplinary, multisectoral equity experts in health care and public health to collectively advocate for justice in health

3. Ensure equitable structures & opportunities in innovation
Embed racial justice and health equity within existing AMA health care innovation efforts
Equip the health care innovation sector to advance equity and justice
Center, integrate and amplify historically marginalized and minoritized health care investors and innovators
Engage in cross-sector collaboration and advocacy efforts

4. Push upstream to address all determinants of health & root causes of inequities
Strengthen physicians’ knowledge of public health and structural/social drivers of health and inequities
Empower physicians and health systems to dismantle structural racism and intersecting systems of oppression
Equip physicians and health systems to improve services, technology, partnership and payment models that advance public health and health equity

5. pathways for truth, racial healing, reconciliation and transformation for AMA’s past
Amplify and integrate often “invisible-ized” narratives of historically marginalized physicians and patients in all that AMA does
Quantify the effects of AMA policy and process decisions that excluded, discriminated and harmed
Repair and cultivate a healing journey for those harms

Historically, racism has been used to divide the public, fuel racial violence, and reduce support for health care, economic, and education policy that would benefit the well-being of society (Blacksher & Valles, 2021; Cui & Worrell, 2019; McGhee, 2021). American psychology, including APA, has been complicit in actions that have perpetuated racism. Therefore, an important aspect of APA’s continued work in understanding how psychology can meaningfully contribute to disarming and dismantling individual and systemic racism is to first acknowledge that racism has had a historical underpinning in White supremacy and in supporting structures of White privilege institutionally and structurally for centuries.
The purpose of this resolution is to identify psychology’s role in helping to expose, understand, and ultimately dismantle racism operating across all levels in each of the following systems of society—education, science, health care, work and economic opportunities, criminal justice, early childhood development, and government and public policy, as addressed below, while acknowledging that systemic racism has impact beyond these sectors.

For the first time, APA and American psychology are systematically and intentionally examining, acknowledging, and charting a path forward to address their roles in racism. At the same time, this is an insufficient response with respect to both psychology’s responsibility and its potential to heal. In short, this resolution is in itself necessary but not sufficient. The resolution possesses moral legitimacy only as one step in an ongoing process, not as an endpoint. Not later than the Council of Representatives’ second meeting of 2022, and with advice from the Task Force on Strategies to Eradicate Racism, Discrimination, and Hate and other subject matter experts within and outside the Association, APA’s CEO will develop a plan to prioritize, operationalize, and ensure accountability for achieving the goals of the resolutions set forth below.

This resolution also acknowledges the complexity of ethnoracial dialogues, especially in the United States (U.S.). While the limited and forced federal categorization and definition of ethnicity and race exist, the minoritized experiences of individuals and communities facing systemic racism cannot be easily and plainly described. For this reason, in this resolution, “ethnic and racial minorities,” “ethnically and racially diverse individuals,” “people of color,” and other terms are interchangeably used while also mentioning specific ethnic and racial groups. Terms such as “people of color” are also used as inclusive language for biracial and multiracial individuals who must navigate multiple race-related systemic challenges. The resolution also warns that a monolithic approach to understanding ethnically and racially categorized people without appreciating the diversity-within factors and intersectional identities in itself is a form of systemic racism that denies various unique challenges and strengths that exist within each ethnic and racial group.

Before this thread descends into mass panic (Ala CRT in schools) if you read the wording of the strategic plan it's primarily to improve service delivery to culturally diverse patient populations.

It will make zero impact on anybody on this forum so calm down and carry on.

Before this thread descends into mass panic (Ala CRT in schools) if you read the wording of the strategic plan it's primarily to improve service delivery to culturally diverse patient populations.

It will make zero impact on anybody on this forum so calm down and carry on.

Lol, just as I predicted.

Why would they come up with these "strategic plans" if they are not going to make any impact on anyone? That's a rhetorical question by the way; I'm not really interested in anything you have to say on this matter.

And no, it won't have an immediate impact on me, because I live in the UK, but I follow developments in the US because I know when I see developments like this in the US, I can expect to see them in the UK in only a few years time.

Lol, just as I predicted.

Why would they come up with these "strategic plans" if they are not going to make any impact on anyone? That's a rhetorical question by the way; I'm not really interested in anything you have to say on this matter.

And no, it won't have an immediate impact on me, because I live in the UK, but I follow developments in the US because I know when I see developments like this in the US, I can expect to see them in the UK in only a few years time.

This will embolden those who believe in woke ideologies but were afraid to put it in their practice to do so.

Really AS? I mean seriously, how the heck is any so called "woketivist" going to take advantage of a strategic plan??? these are largely recommendations.

I was not thinking woketivist but a professional person who agrees with or is sympathetic to CRT but was afraid to rock the boat lest it have career repercussions. That person would now be thinking I have the backing my influential professional organization to implement these recommendations I agree with.

To do what? report a colleague?

To diagnose and treat their patient based on what group they are in and where that group falls on the intersectionality scale.

To provide their patient with more relevant treatment? The horror!

Relevant treatments occur when the individual is correctly diagnosed. To do that the clinician has to look at the individual as an individual not as a member of a privileged or oppressed group.