Objective/Background:
In 2003, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) published Unequal Treatment: Confronting Racial and Ethnic
Disparities in Health Care, which provided evidence that racial and ethnic minorities receive lower
quality healthcare. Two associated factors were social determinants of health and unconscious bias. The
LCME and ACGME have mandated educational curricula that educate future physicians in providing
culturally relevant care and promoting healthy equity.
Workshop Agenda: In this interactive workshop, the learners will identify social determinants of health
through case-base learning. They willl take an implicit aptitude test (IAT) to understand unconscious
bias. They will be given tools so they can adapt the workshop in their own institution.
Interactive Component: Participants will: 1. Be introduced to the diversity toolkit for medical educators
(10 min). 2. Separate into small groups to review cases and identify examples of social determinants of
health and unconscious bias in the cases (20 min). 3. Report back findings to group and create list of
social determinants of health and biases (15 min). 4. Participate in an IAT (10 min). 5. Discuss results (10
min). 6. Review applications and lessons learned. (10 min).
Take Home Product:
Participants will take home a facilitators guide on how to run the case-based workshop to help learners
identify social determinants of health and unconscious bias.
Keywords:
unconscious bias, social determinants of health, health equity
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