After Tulane suspended a Black female doctor, medical community erupts with racism, bias claims

The Tulane University School of Medicine residency program, where doctors fresh from medical school embark on the last leg of their training, promotes itself as a diverse institution that aims to reflect the population of New Orleans.

The school’s website refers to the importance of serving New Orleans’ large Black population. And Tulane has had some success in attracting doctors of color. In 2014, a combined residency program in pediatrics and internal medicine recruited the school’s first ever all-minority, all-female cohort.

“We strive to get our practitioners to look like the people we take care of,” said an administrator in an online video aimed at attracting residents to the internal medicine program, one of 19 residencies at the 186-year-old institution.

But last month, the dismissal of Dr. Princess Dennar, a Black program director who ran the school’s internal medicine-pediatrics residency before a committee voted to remove her, sparked an outcry that has challenged those claims of inclusivity.

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