We are all vulnerable to bias, the influence of stereotypes and behaving in ways contrary to our beliefs and best intentions. Faculty and preceptors need to be intentional and deliberate when addressing issues of diversity, equity and inclusion. These resources barely scratch the surface but provide a place to start. Additional resources are available on our Ensuring an Inclusive, Healthy Climate page.
Just In Time
These Just In Time resources are ideal if you only have a couple of minutes to start finding out about Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion.
Take 5: Reducing Unconscious Bias Writing Letters of Recommendation
Source: Mayo Clinic
Sharonne Hayes, MD. discusses inadvertent oversights and biases which can prevent you from creating an accurate and fair portrayal of your recomendee.
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News article by Hamza Shaban interviewing Lundy Braun talking about the history of the spirometer and “the science of racial difference, its history, and its resurgence”.
JAMA Internal Medicine 2018 Sep 10. doi: 10.1001/jamainternmed.2018.4348.
Amy Nicole Cowan, MD, MS gives her perspective on inappropriate behaviors in clinical settings.
Offers advice about how to respond when students or peers use biased language or stereotypes and gives guidance for helping students learn to speak up.
Deeper Dive
If you have more time to invest, these Deeper Dive resources are longer and/or more in depth so you can gain a deeper understanding of Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion.
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AAMC MedEdPORTAL Diversity, Inclusion, and Health Equity Collection (link)
AAMC MedEdPORTAL Diversity, Inclusion, and Health Equity Collection
Collection of peer-reviewed educational articles and resources focusing on diversity and inclusion.
Addressing Biases in Health Care by Promoting Inclusive Teaching Practices Among Faculty in Health Professions Education Programs (link)
Addressing Biases in Health Care by Promoting Inclusive Teaching Practices Among Faculty in Health Professions Education Programs: “Learning to Say the Right Words at the Right Time”
New Directions for Teaching and Learning. 2020 Jun. 162: 123-33.
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This chapter offers an evidence‐based approach for training faculty educators in the health professions that includes raising awareness of inequities, facilitating self‐reflection about identity, and building skills through applied improvisational techniques to act when bias or microaggressions occur.
Author(s): Donald L. Gillian‐Daniel Elizabeth M. Petty Megan E. Schmid Anne Stahr Nancy C. Raymond
Addressing Implicit Bias, Racial Anxiety, and Stereotype Threat in Education and Health Care (pdf)
Addressing Implicit Bias, Racial Anxiety, and Stereotype Threat in Education and Health Care
The Science Of Equality. 2014 Nov.
This book uses over 200 studies to examine implicit bias, racial anxiety and stereotype threat.
Author(s): Rachel D. Godsil, Linda R. Tropp, Ph.D., Phillip Atiba Goff, Ph.D and john a. powell
A Framework For Culturally Responsive Teaching (link)
A Framework For Culturally Responsive Teaching
A model of culturally responsive teaching based on theories of intrinsic motivation.
Implicit Association Test (link)
Take a few tests to learn about your own unconscious associations. Project Implicit integrates a range of Implicit Association Tests (IATs) to measure the strength of associations and consolidate information about attitudes and beliefs that people may be unwilling or unable to report. The IAT may be especially interesting if it shows that you have an implicit attitude that you did not know about. For example, you may believe that women and men should be equally associated with science, but your automatic associations could show that you (like many others) associate men with science more than you associate women with science.
Project Implicit’s research results are publicly available.
Accessible Course Design (link)
A number of curated resources from Iowa State provide strategies to create accessible course design and learning spaces.
It Starts With Me: Conversations About Identity, Privilege, AND Intersectionality (link)
It Starts With Me: Conversations About Identity, Privilege, AND Intersectionality
This 6 session series explores themes related to the following list with readings, journaling reflections, short videos and activities. Foundations: Introductions, definitions, history; Identity, power and oppression; Implicit bias and microaggressions; Communicating about race; and Movement and Action.
Sponsor(s): SMPH Department of Family Medicine and Community Health
Strategies for Inclusive Teaching (link)
Strategies for Inclusive Teaching
Provides strategies for promoting inclusion, reducing stereotype threat, and fostering a growth mindset.
The Danger of a Single Story (video)
“Our lives, our cultures, are composed of many overlapping stories. Novelist Chimamanda Adichie tells the story of how she found her authentic cultural voice — and warns that if we hear only a single story about another person or country, we risk a critical misunderstanding.” Presented at TEDGlobal 2009
The Problem with Race-Based Medicine (video)
The Problem with Race-Based Medicine
“Social justice advocate and law scholar Dorothy Roberts has a precise and powerful message: Race-based medicine is bad medicine” presented at TEDMED 2015
Teaching Empathy to Medical Students: an Updated, Systematic Review (link)
Teaching Empathy to Medical Students: an Updated, Systematic Review
Academic Medicine. 2013 Aug. 88(8): 1171-7.
Some research shows that empathy declines during medical school. Learn how educational interventions can be effective in maintaining and enhancing empathy in undergraduate medical students.
University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health Presenter's Guide
University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health Presenter’s Guide
This manual, written by students, gives a detailed guide to present in an informative and inclusive way.