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Black Americans have been practicing medicine since before the Revolutionary War. And the path has always been challenging. This timeline highlights a brief sample of the enormous contributions that Black Americans have made to the medical profession. As far back as 1721, Onesimus, an enslaved African, described a smallpox inoculation and, in 1783, James Durham became the first Black American doctor. Yet it took until 2018 for the American Medical Association to elect its first Black female Pres…
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Did you know that Geisinger Health Sciences Library subscribes to a visually-based, point of care resource known as VisualDX? This subscription resource is available to visually reference patient diagnoses and build differential diagnoses all in one frame, with the added benefit of its unique Skin of Color tool.
The Skin of Color feature of VisualDX supports equity in healthcare through diagnostic resources for patients with a variety of skin tones and pigments, specifically with ev…
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