Medical students from more than 70 schools on Wednesday protested racial profiling and police brutality through the social media initiative #WhiteCoats4BlackLives.

Hundreds of medical students wore white coats at “die-ins” and other protests on campuses to spotlight racial bias as a public health issue.

The medical students joined others who have demonstrated since grand juries in Ferguson, Missouri, and in New York City declined to indict white police officers in the killings of unarmed black men. Some of the protests have involved students, including those in high schools, colleges and Ivy league schools.

Pictures that circulated Wednesday showed medical students holding signs that read, “Hands Up, Don’t Shoot,” and “We Can’t Breathe” -- rallying cries for those protesting the deaths of Michael Brown in Ferguson and Eric Garner in New York.

The effort was endorsed by Students for a National Health Program, an affiliate of Physicians for a National Health Program, an organization of more than 19,000 medical students and professionals that advocates for improved universal Medicare.

“We as medical students feel that this is an important time for medical institutions to respond to violence and race-related trauma that affect our communities and the patients we serve,” says a statement on the organization’s website.

“We feel it is essential to begin a conversation about our role in addressing the explicit and implicit discrimination and racism in our communities and reflect on the systemic biases embedded in our medical education curricula, clinical learning environments, and administrative decision-making.”

Here are photos from medical students in the #WhiteCoats4BlackLives protests Wednesday:

This article has been updated with additional protests not included in the original article. The headline has also been updated to reflect that the protests were not attended exclusively by medical students.



Ricardo Padilla/Facebook 100 medical students at the USC Keck School of Medicine participated in a protest.

aimeelparks/Instagram Cooper Medical School of Rowan University students

CShoush/Twitter University of Illinois College of Medicine students

yaqster/Instagram USC students

ak_mahd/Instagram Howard University students

thephucpham/Twitter University of California, Irvine students

cissabelle/Instagram Virginia Commonwealth University students

Christopher Villongco Morehouse School of Medicine students

Jawad Husain/Twitter Boston University medical students

kwokytalky/Twitter Mount Sinai Hospital hospital staff and students

paigeleskin/Twitter Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine students

Audrey__Li/Twitte SUNY Downstate Medical Center students

JeSuis_Diva/Twitter SUNY Downstate Medical Center students

meaghanmcb/Twitter Medical College of Wisconsin students

Shemena/Twitter Cooper Medical School of Rowan University students

sweetdivalove/Instagram Temple University students

Hewniverse/Twitter University of California, San Francisco students

jobertp/Instagram University of California, San Francisco students

jennycrawford5/Instagram University of California, San Francisco students

1NaturalBlkStar/Twitter Georgetown University School of Medicine students

jennisaurmelon/Instagram UC Davis School of Medicine

vicenza77/Twitter Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis students

Ricardo Padilla/Facebook 100 medical students at the USC Keck School of Medicine participated in a protest.

hellotini/Twitter University of California, San Diego students

marne_alexandra/Instagram Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons students

honeynayy/Instagram Columbia University Medical Center students

medschl/Instagram New York Medical College students

enFOURcer1914/Twitter University of Minnesota medical students

UCMED_Diversity/Twitter University of Cincinnati College of Medicine students

coreyshy1/Twitter Texas A&M Health Science Center College of Medicine students

livylow/Twitter Albert Einstein College of Medicine students

Richard Park/Flickr Brown University Alpert Medical School students

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