Medical learners' anti-racist activism: promoting learners to lead social change

The medical profession has long been established as primarily a hierarchical structure with the decision makers at the top of that hierarchy being the most powerful. These individuals assume the responsibility to guide the evolution of the profession to better serve patients and educate medical learners. While this power structure has long dominated the landscape of the profession, research has shown this power structure—in the eyes of trainees—is not working effectively in allowing the profession to evolve and become more inclusive to its diversifying members and patients.1 Wyatt et al provide insights into why and how marginalised members of the profession are currently trying to make change in the profession from a position of comparably less power and autonomy