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UK student Malone Mukwende’s handbook of signs in patients with black and brown skin aims to fill a gap in current medical textbooks
A landmark handbook created by a medical student, which illustrates clinical signs on darker skin, has become an international sensation.
UK-based Malone Mukwende was spurred into action after he started medical school and realised clinical signs were predominantly taught through images of Caucasian skin.
Concerned that this compromised patient care, he co-authored a handbook of signs in patients with black and brown skin, with the help of medical school lecturers.
Mind the Gap covers the basics such as hand and conjunctival pallor and central cyanosis.
