Resources for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Medical Education
Databases
- VisualDx
VisualDX is a differential diagnosis decision support tool, designed to be used at the point-of-care. This resource incorporates skin pigmentation in the image search.
e-Books
Clinical Cases in Skin of Color: Medical, Oncological and Hair Disorders, and Cosmetic DermatologyISBN: 3319236156Publication Date: 2016
Medical management of vulnerable and underserved patients: Principles, practice, populationsISBN: 9780071834445Publication Date: 2016
- Mind the Gap: A Handbook of Clinical Signs in Black & Brown SkinMind the Gap is a clinical handbook developed to showcase clinical signs of diseases on black and brown skin.
Syllabi & Curriculum Resources
- MedEd Portal: Anti-Racism CollectionThis collection within MedEdPORTAL provides educators with practice-based, peer-reviewed resources to teach anti-racist knowledge and clinical skills, elevates the educational scholarship of anti-racist curricula, and aims to convene a community of collaborators dedicated to the elimination of racism within medical education.
- TAACT: Tool for Assessing Cultural Competence TrainingAAMC's TACCT tool enables schools to identify gaps and redundancies in their curricula, gather information from various stakeholders - students and faculty and serves as a blueprint of where, what and when cultural competence content exists in the curriculum. This enables schools to make the best use of opportunities and resources to integrate cultural competence content.
- Institute for Justice and Health: Curricula & SyllabiExisting antiracist curricula & syllabi from and for a wide variety of health and healing professions.
- NAMCC: Learning ModulesThe National Anti-Racism in Medicine Curriculum Coalition's self-paced modules on core concepts in anti-racism in medicine for faculty and students.
- Syllabus: A History of Anti-Black Racism in MedicineThis syllabus on the history of anti-Blackness in American medicine is provided by the African-American Intellectual History Society. It is not exhaustive, it lays important groundwork for bridging this gap and illustrating that questions of race and racism should be central to studying the histories of medicine and science.
- University of Washington School of Medicine: Anti-Racism Summer Reading ProgramIncludes guide for facilitated discussions of Fatal Invention by Dorothy Roberts.
- Upstate Bias ChecklistThis checklist is intended to promote reflection regarding how race, gender, and other indicators (including social determinants of health, such as poverty) are represented in health professions education by evaluating education content, such as a lecture, standardized patient encounter, small group session, or written examination, including slides, handouts, assigned readings, examination questions, problem-based learning cases, or anything said by the presenter during the learning encounter.
- Building a Diverse and Inclusive Communities in Academic Health CentersDrexel's 2008 Executive Leadership Forum Report includes links to readings, professional resources, and best practices.
Teaching & Training Toolkits
- AMA Center for Health EquityEducational modules on topics such as historical foundations of racism in medicine, structural racism and the Latinx community, and more.
- AMA's Racial and Health Equity: Concrete STEPS for Health SystemsThis toolkit provides a framework to embed racial justice and health equity into health systems.
- Community Engagement ToolkitsAAMC's videos, tools and links to research that support working with communities health and health care equity.
- Diversity Toolkit: A Guide to Discussing Identity, Power, and PrivilegeUniversity of Southern California's School of Social Work toolkit includes worksheets, activities, and additional resources.
- Health Equity Curricular ToolkitAmerican Academy of Family Physicians resources including modules, videos, and facilitation strategies.
- Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion in Climate Adaptation PlanningCDC's playbook and resources to support public health departments and adaptation planners as they blend JEDI into their climate and health efforts.
- LBGTQ+ Health Training ToolkitPrepared by the American Academy of Family Physicians
- NBME Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Educational ChallengeThematically arranged and curated selection of content in a variety of formats to support diverse learning styles.
- National Council for Mental WellbeingAddressing Health Equity and Racial Justice within Integrated Care Settings toolkit & learning modules.
- A Tool Kit for Productive Conversations on RacePublished by Mass General Brigham's Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
- Toolkit for Teaching about Racism in the Context of Persistent Health and Healthcare DisparitiesResources focused on race and racism but include a larger critical dialogue on bias, identity, intersectionality, and privilege. This toolkit provides examples of resources and learning activities.
- University of California, San Francisco The REPAIR ProjectResource repository with links to syllabi, lectures, podcasts, reading lists, and other teaching resources.
Websites
- 42 Ways to Advance Racial Equity in Academic MedicineAlthough not exhaustive, the list below offers a list of 42 actions faculty, and members of the academic community can do to advance racial equity in academic medicine, in no particular order.
- Anti-Racism and Social Justice ResourcesA curated list created by KEXP a nonprofit arts organization.
- EthnoMedThis website provides information about culture, language, health, illness and community resources directly accessible to health care providers who see patients from different ethnic groups.
- Healthcare Equity and Anti-Racism ResourcesThe UW Medicine Office of Healthcare Equity's resource list of anti-racist books, videos, podcasts, articles, and more.
- Racial Equity ToolsThis site offers tools, research, tips, curricula and ideas for people who want to increase their own understanding and to help those working toward justice at every level – in systems, organizations, communities and the culture at large.
Grading & Assessment
- Constructed criteria: Redefining merit to justify discriminationUhlmann & Cohen, Psychological Science, 2005.
- Differences in words used to describe racial and gender groups in medical student performance evaluationsRoss, D. A., et. al., PLoS One, 2017.
- The effect of an intervention to break the gender bias habit for faculty at one institution: a cluster, randomized controlled trialCarnes, M., et. al., Academic Medicine, 2015.
- Experimental evidence on teachers’ racial bias in student evaluation: the role of grading scales.Quinn, d. M., Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 2020.
- Exploring the color of glass: Letters of recommendation for female and male medical facultyTrix & Penska, Disclosure & Society, 2003.
- How can we reduce bias during an academic assessment reappraisal?Desy,J., et. al., Medical Teacher, 2019.
- In pursuit of honors: A multi-institutional study of students' perceptions of clerkship evaluation and gradingBullock, J. L., et. al., Academic Medicine, 2019.
- Influence of gender on surgical residency applicants' recommendation lettersTurrentine, F.E., et. al., Journal of the American College of Surgeons, 2019.
- Medical education’s wicked problem: achieving equity in assessment for medical learnersLucey, C. R., et al., Academic Medicine, 2020.
- Putting communities in the driver’s seat: the realities of community-engaged medical educationStrasser, R., et. al., Academic Medicine, 2015.
- Racial disparities in medical student membership in the Alpha Omega Alpha Honor SocietyBoatright, D., et. al., JAMA Internal Medicine, 2017.
- The sights and insights of examiners in objective structured clinical examinationsChong, L. , et. al., Journal of Educational Evaluation for Health Professions, 2017.
Videos
- Addressing Inequalities, Implicit Bias, and the Isms in Clinical CareDr. Like, Emeritus Professor, RWJMS, Department of Family Medicine & Community Health
- Rutgers Health GME Grand Rounds: Becoming an AllyRecording Password: NpWKzit5
Sunny Nakae, Senior Associate Dean for Equity, Inclusion, Diversity, and Partnership, Associate Professor of Medical Education, California University of Science and Medicine