Cultural Diversity and Anti-Racism: Faculty Development Resources - Introductory

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Susan Cavanaugh MS, MPH and Marlowe Bogino MLIS from the CMSRU Library discuss institutional, structural, and systemic racism, aiming to explain these three forms of racism using examples from education, housing, and healthcare.

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Dr. Kathryn Behling, MD, PhD at CMSRU, defines the terms race and genetic ancestry and why these terms, although sometimes used interchangeably, are not equivalent. Examples of the harmful use of race in medical algorithms are also discussed, and suggestions are provided on how to carefully consider race in medical education.

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Dr. Martin Job, PhD at CMSRU, describes how to become more comfortable discussing race in academic settings using the framework "Acknowledge, Understand, Act" and then provides strategies for classroom facilitation.

~15-Minute browse and read
Glossary published by Rowan University provides definitions to increase the use of inclusive terminology.

~ 15-Minute browse and read
Oregon Health and Science University guide created to help OHSU members learn about and use inclusive language in institutional communications, patient care, instruction, and presentations.

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In this mix of live-action and animation, a young boy of color navigates bias in the classroom and its impact on his future. The film also includes the voices of other children sharing their experiences, at school and at home, as they grow older.

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Describes implicit bias.

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Institute for Healthcare Improvement explains how healthcare providers can prevent the negative impacts of implicit bias. Presented by Anurag Gupta, M Phil, JD, the founder & CEO of Be More America, a consulting firm that uses mindfulness, research and data to help people unlearn biases.

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Dr. Camara Phyllis Jones, a family physician and epidemiologist by training, Dr. Jones' lifelong passion has been naming and addressing the impacts of racism on the health and wellbeing of the nation. In a 2002 videotaped interview for the CityMatCH Annual Urban MCH Leadership Conference, Dr. Jones shared a simple yet remarkably profound allegory she grew and nurtured to help people come to a place of understanding about the many layers and nuances of institutionalized, personally-mediated, and internalized racism.

~ 5-Minute listen/read
NPR Weekend Edition segment on the personal story of Roberto Montenegro PhD, MD experiencing discrimination based on being Hispanic and the stress response of experiencing repeated discrimination.

~ 10-Minute read
Four case reviews, based on real cases, where bias impacted healthcare and describes a novel approach to mitigate bias called “Bias and Racism Rounds.

~ 15 Minute browse/read
Four-part webinar series created jointly by the Skin of Color Society, New England Journal of Medicine and VisualDX covering health disparities in dermatology in the context of specific dermatologic diseases.

~ 15-Minute read
Describes the effect of colorblindness on health equity by examining themes from personnel interviews of healthcare workers.

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Audio news story discussion with a parent recounting their child’s health journey to identify the cause of a skin rash as well as systemic barriers to properly diagnosing dermatologic conditions in people of color.

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In the US, Black women are nearly 300 percent more likely to die as a result of childbirth than white women. Sharing appalling statistics on maternal mortality as well as her own tragic story of loss, Wanda Irving explains how racism and bias in health care minimizes and dismisses Black women's pain -- and makes a personal plea for leaders in the medical community to take steps toward reform.

~ 23-Minute listen
NPR Life Kit segment on the intent and impact of microaggressions, provides tips on how to identify and address them, and when not to respond.

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Tammy Hodo Ph.D, a biracial social scientist who studies the impacts of the variables of race, class, ethnicity, and sex have on opportunities in life, talks about her experience of two different Americas: one for whites and one for blacks.

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Dr. Evelyn Hammonds, History of Science Professor at Yale University, TChan School of Public health, gives an overview of the history of the term “race” and briefly discusses issues with various uses of the term over time.

Describes medical school curricula transference of bias onto students and provides recommendations for change.

Describes how structural racism impacts population health and health inequalities.

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Harriet A. Washington, former Harvard University School of Public Health Research Fellow in Ethics and author of several books including Medical Apartheid, discusses the history of racism in medicine.

Focuses on racial health disparities in both the US and the UK during the COVID-19 health pandemic, and provides a brief history of racism in healthcare.