Medical schools rarely teach common skin ailments in Black patients. One student fills the void.

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Malone Mukwende's guide compares images of different conditions on dark and light skin, and provides students and health care professionals with proper identification and descriptions of the skin’s reaction to multiple diseases.

The guide compares images of different conditions on dark and light skin, and provides students and health care professionals with proper identification and descriptions of the skin’s reaction to multiple diseases.

But lack of instructional imagery showing darker skin tones is an issue that many health care professionals say stretches throughout the medical field and needs to be reformed before communities of color can be better served. At the end of May, she and other dermatologists from Howard and Stanford universities released a research letter in thepointing to the lack of images of dark skin in articles studying possible skin manifestations of COVID-19.

Lester said that understanding the difference between the way illness shows in various skin tones comes down to basic color theory.

 

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