Implementing a graduate medical education anti-racism workshop at an academic university in the Southern USA

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ID8070872
AutoresTina Simpson (0000-0002-8316-8831, University of Alabama at Birmingham), Justin Evans (0000-0002-2407-1482, University of Alabama at Birmingham), J J Evans (0000-0003-4697-3337), Alice R Goepfert (0000-0001-9624-8753), Alice Goepfert (University of Alabama at Birmingham), Latesha Elopre (0000-0002-3332-2300, University of Alabama at Birmingham, autor correspondente)
Ano2021
Volume27
Fascículo1
Páginas1981803-1981803
Data de publicação2021-11-23
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoMedical Education Online (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1087-2981 • E-ISSN: 1087-2981
EditoraTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/10872981.2021.1981803
PMID34813390
OpenAlexW3215204036
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas9
Referências citadas9

Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) and the social justice movement in early 2020 awakened many Americans to the health disparities and health care inequities affecting Black communities. This heightened awareness has strengthened the call to address social determinants of health, like racism. Physicians can play an important role in dismantling racism through knowledge of implicit biases and understanding of historical trauma resulting in medical distrust as a crucial step to help advance the health of minority communities. The purpose of this project was to develop an anti-racism workshop for Graduate Medical Education. Two discussants led 1.5-hour interactive workshops. Content covered microagressions, colorblindness, tokenism, stereotypes, levels of racism, the impact of racism on health, and anti-racism concepts. Facilitated breakout sessions allowed participants to provide examples of witnessed racism and discuss application of anti-racism tools in those settings. Following the workshops, participants were asked to complete a 16-item survey to evaluate workshop effectiveness. Between July and August 2020, four workshops were delivered to 131 attendees. Fifty-nine completed post workshop surveys. Most respondents were White (75%), female (63%), and aged 31-40 (29%). Over half were faculty; 24% were residents, 8% fellows. The majority agreed they could apply knowledge to their work (95%) and found the workshop useful (95%). Over two-thirds reported being able to better identify disparities and better identify and communicate about racism. In open-ended questions, many participants requested an interactive longitudinal curriculum. Developing an antiracism workshop for an academic medical center located in the Deep South provided more insight into tangible next steps to foster an institutional culture centered on antiracism

Distrust · Health equity · Institutional racism · Medical education · Prejudice (legal term · Psychometrics of racism · Public health · Racism · Sociology · Tokenism · Cultural Competency in Health Care · Medicine · Migration, Health and Trauma · Nursing · Psychology · Racial and Ethnic Identity Research · Gender Studies · Social Psychology