Unconscious bias in speaker introductions at a national vascular surgery meeting: The impact of rank, race and gender.

Autor: Vavra AK; Division of Vascular Surgery, Department of Surgery, Northwestern Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL, USA. Electronic address: ashley.vavra@nm.org., Furlough CL; Division of Vascular Surgery, Department of Surgery, University of Illinois Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA., Guerra A; Division of Vascular Surgery, Department of Surgery, Northwestern Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL, USA., Hekman KE; Division of Vascular Surgery and Endovascular Therapy, Department of Surgery, Emory School of Medicine, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA., Yoo T; OhioHealth Grant Medical Center, Columbus, OH, USA., Duma N; Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA., Stewart CL; Department of Surgery, St. Anthony Hospital, Lakewood, CO, USA., Yi JA; Department of Surgery, St. Anthony Hospital, Lakewood, CO, USA.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: American journal of surgery [Am J Surg] 2024 Jun; Vol. 232, pp. 54-58. Date of Electronic Publication: 2023 Nov 19.
DOI: 10.1016/j.amjsurg.2023.10.056
Abstrakt: Objectives: Unconscious bias can impact manner of speaker introductions in formal academic settings. We examined speaker introductions at the Society of Vascular Surgeons Annual Meeting to determine factors associated with non-professional address.
Methods: We examined speaker introductions from the 2019 SVS Vascular Annual Meeting. Professional title with either full name or last name was considered professional address. Speaker and moderator demographics were collected. Univariate and multivariate logistic regression analyses were performed to identify associations between introduction and speaker and moderator characteristics.
Results: 336 talks met inclusion criteria. Both speakers and moderators were more likely to be white (63.4 ​% and 65.8 ​%,p ​= ​0.92), man (75.6 ​% and 74.4 ​%,p ​= ​0.82) and full professor rank (34.5 ​% and 42.3 ​%, p ​< ​0.001). On multivariable regression, non-professional address was associated with speaker rank of trainee (OR 3.13, p ​= ​0.05) and when moderator was white (OR 2.42, p ​= ​0.03).
Conclusions: This study emphasizes the potential negative impact of unconscious bias at a national meeting for vascular surgeons and the need to mitigate this effect at the organization level.
Competing Interests: Declaration of competing interest The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.
(Published by Elsevier Inc.)
Databáze: MEDLINE
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