Leveraging Clerkship Experiences to Address Segregated Care: A Survey-Based Approach to Student-Led Advocacy.

Many academic medical centers (AMCs) have a history of separating patients on the basis of insurance status. In New York State, where Black and Latino patients are more than twice as likely to have Medicaid as white patients, this practice leads to racial segregation in healthcare. Emerging evidence suggests that this segregation of care is detrimental to both patient care and medical education.