Purpose
Medical education must include intentional critical engagement with the ways that racism has shaped, and continues to shape, medicine and health. At Ohio University Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine, we—three Social Medicine and one Clinical faculty—identified a need for additional content delivered in a way that encouraged frank and respectful discussion.  

Methods
Institutional barriers led us to create a 7-week “seminar series” apart from the standard curriculum, called Racism in Medicine (RIM), which we have held virtually over Teams for two years and counting. With a total of 69 preclinical and clinical students participating so far, we collected data on their weekly expectations and impressions, and final evaluations over Qualtrics, to understand better students’ needs and satisfaction with the extracurricular activity. 

Results
We will share the structure of the seminar series, recent topics and resources, interdisciplinary guest speakers and their contributions, surprising and meaningful teaching moments, and representative student quotes from their online surveys.  

Conclusion
We hope that RIM can serve as a model for other medical educators seeking to fill gaps in DEI and antiracism in medical school curricula with a particular emphasis on critical engagement with the ways that racism shapes medicine and health. In this cultural and political climate, it’s incumbent on medical educators to find ways to create “safe” and “brave” spaces for medical students to engage critically with racism in medicine.