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Northwestern Health Sciences University

Belonging

This guide contains a collection of resources to help you expand your knowledge of topics related to diversity, equity and inclusion.

External Resources

Mind the Gap: A Handbook of Clinical Signs in Black and Brown Skin

  • Mind the Gap is a Handbook to raise awareness of how symptoms and signs can present differently on darker skin as well as highlighting the different language that needs to be used in descriptors.

Centre of Evidence Based Dermatology: Skin of Colour Resource

  • The purpose of this resource is to provide health care professionals with regularly updated, comprehensive evidence based information in the form of systematic reviews, review articles, guidelines and patient information leaflets, complemented where possible by good quality clinical images kindly supplied by DermNet NZ.  In this resource you will find a wide-ranging list of disorders that are unique, prevalent or clinically variable in pigmented skin.