Sparking justice under the aegis of pragmatism: A mentorship program for Black and Indigenous students in Canadian medicine

While there have been multiple calls to attend to issues of diversity in medical education over past decades, medicine has remained a ‘hegemonically white’ profession in Canada. Mentorship programs for racialized learners are used as affirmative pathways, but their implementation can become challenging at institutions that work with neoliberal diversity at the expense of equity. There is a paucity of literature on how the advocates of such programs may therefore unwittingly embrace a pragmatic sensibility to negotiate institutional diversity imperatives while also advancing their commitments to equity and inclusion.