Striving for Diversity and Equality in Family Medicine
Striving for Diversity and Equality in Family Medicine
February 10, 2021, 1:40 pm News Staff To commemorate Black History Month, the Academy recently noted
Today, the AAFP takes a look inward to highlight some of the Academy’s longstanding efforts toward promoting diversity, equality and inclusion in the specialty.
1965: In April, the Congress of Delegates of the (then) American Academy of General Practice, in a discussion on equal rights for Academy membership, adopts a resolution that, among other things, states that the Congress “is unalterably opposed to the denial of membership in county and state chapters of our Academy to any duly licensed physician in the family practice of medicine because of race, color, religion, ethnic affiliation or national origin.”