Exeter University students lead the way

Medical students at the University of Exeter are leading the way in diversifying medical education resources by developing their own, which feature a range of skin tones.

Students at the University of Exeter Medical School have worked on two separate projects, which are now creating resources that can be used to change practice in institutions across the country, to ensure a diverse and representative range of skin tones is used in medical education.

One group of students has published a paper, while another student has launched a website providing a repository of diverse images.

A group of seven medical students set up the Skin Diversity Project (Melanin Matters) to raise awareness of how skin conditions look across different skin colours – something that is often missing in medical textbooks – and debunk dermatology myths.