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race social construct biological genetic construct utilized categorize people based observable traits behaviors geographic location findings human genome project demonstrated humans share 999 dna despite evidence race frequently utilized risk factor diagnosis prescribing practices diagnosing treating people based race known racebased medicine racebased medicine perpetuates biases diverts attention resources social determinants health cause racial health inequities minimal research examined medical students understanding racebased medicine purpose study assess osteopathic medical students knowledge beliefs experiences racebased medicine conducted descriptive crosssectional survey study assess osteopathic medical students knowledge beliefs experiences racebased medicine electronic anonymous survey distributed osteopathic medical students enrolled medical school midwest three campuses 20192020 academic year participants completed brief demographic questionnaire racebased medicine questionnaire descriptive inferential statistics conducted utilizing spss statistical software version 280 statistical significance defined p005 openended questions analyzed utilizing content thematic analyses total 438 995 osteopathic medical students consented participate study response rate 440 among participants 221 520 reported heard term racebased medicine familiarity term differed racial background 2 24598 p0001 black african american participants indicating greater familiarity term compared races participants familiar racebased medicine 79 444 provided correct definition term finding differ sociodemographic variable part way questionnaire participants provided correct definition racebased medicine asked thought medical schools teach racebased medicine majority participants n231 614 supported teaching racebased medicine qualitative findings elaborated participants support opposition teaching racebased medicine medical school support explained importance teaching historical perspectives racebased medicine well race data point epidemiology presence board examinations whereas opposition believed contradicted osteopathic principles practice findings showed half participants familiar racebased medicine among less half knew definition term highlighting osteopathic philosophy focus whole person may one approach educating osteopathic medical students racebased medicine