The Family and Community Medicine (FCM) Department strives to be an anti-racist department that is just and unbiased. Defining antiracism as: The active process of identifying and eliminating all forms of oppression by changing systems, organizational structures, policies, practices, attitudes, behaviors and speech so that power and authority are redistributed and shared equitably. We are cognizant of the multiplicity of the ways in which being race conscious and race aware allows us to pay attention to the race-based medicine that has been practiced for far too long. We take note of how