Malone Mukwende, a Black medical student, has created a book to help doctors recognize symptoms on darker skin tones.
Mukwende, who is in his second year of medical school at St George’s, University of London, wrote "Mind The Gap" after he “noticed a lack of teaching about darker skin."
“My motivations to create the book came from lived experiences like having people within my own community almost having a distrust for health care professionals because they have heard stories of misdiagnosis or had been misdiagnosed,” Mukwende told NBC News.
“There's certain points where I knew for certain that in darker skin or skin, like my own,” the diagnosis “would not be the same,” he said.
Mukwende hopes the handbook, which compares images of different conditions on dark and light skin, teaches medical students and other health professionals about "the importance of recognizing how some conditions can present differently in darker skins.”