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ArticleMedical education online2022

Brief online implicit bias education increases bias awareness among clinical teaching faculty.

Janice Sabin, Grace Guenther, India J Ornelas, Davis G Patterson, C Holly A Andrilla, Leo Morales, Kritee Gurjal, Bianca K Frogner

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Article in Medical education online, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 32 papers.

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32citing papers in PubMed
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32 citing papers in PubMed, 58 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Janice SabinDepartment of Biomedical Informatics and Medical Education, University of Washington, the University of Washington Center for Health Workforce Studies, UW School of Medicine, Seattle, WA, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-2588-9881
Grace GuentherResearch, University of Washington Center for Health Workforce Studies, Seattle, WA, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-5212-4978
India J OrnelasDepartment of Health Services, School of Public Health, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.
Davis G PattersonDepartment of Family Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.
C Holly A AndrillaResearch, University of Washington Center for Health Workforce Studies, WWAMI Rural Health Research Center, Seattle, WA, USA.
Leo MoralesDepartment of Medicine, School of Medicine, Center of Health at the University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.
Kritee GurjalU.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, The Health Economics Resource Center (HERC), Menlo Park, CA, USA.
Bianca K FrognerDepartment of Family Medicine, University of Washington (UW), UW Center for Health Workforce Studies, Seattle, WA, USA.
University of Washington · USUnited States Department of Veterans Affairs · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

problem and purposeHealthcare provider implicit bias influences the learning environment and patient care. Bias awareness is one of the key elements to be included in implicit bias education. Research on education enhancing bias awareness is limited. Bias awareness can motivate behavior change. The objective was to evaluate whether exposure to a brief online course, MATERIALS AND

methodsThe course included the history of racism in medicine, social determinants of health, implicit bias in healthcare, and strategies to reduce the impact of implicit bias in clinical care and teaching. A sample of U.S. academic family, internal, and emergency medicine providers were recruited into the study from August to December 2019. Measures of provider implicit and explicit bias, personal and practice characteristics, and pre-post-bias awareness measures were collected.

resultsOf 111 participants, 78 (70%) were female, 81 (73%) were White, and 63 (57%) were MDs. Providers held moderate implicit pro-White bias on the Race IAT (Cohen's

conclusionsImplicit bias education is effective to increase providers' bias awareness regardless of strength of their implicit and explicit biases and personal and practice characteristics. Increasing bias awareness is one step of many toward creating a positive learning environment and a system of more equitable healthcare.

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Attitude of Health PersonnelBias, ImplicitBiasFacultyFemaleHealth PersonnelHumansMalebias awarenesscontinuing educationImplicit bias

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PMID35037585
PMCPMC8765255
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