Acting Wisely: Eliminating Negative Bias in Medical Education-Part 2: How Can We Do Better?
| Autor: | David S. Wilkes, Randolph J. Canterbury, Margaret Plews-Ogan, Gregory C. Townsend, Taison Bell |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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Medical education
Students Medical 020205 medical informatics Education Medical Attitude of Health Personnel 02 engineering and technology General Medicine Negative bias Affect (psychology) Education 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Bias 0202 electrical engineering electronic engineering information engineering Key (cryptography) Humans 030212 general & internal medicine Psychology Forecasting |
| Zdroj: | Academic medicine : journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges. 95(12S Addressing Harmful Bias and Eliminating Discrimination in Health Professions Learning) |
| ISSN: | 1938-808X |
| Popis: | In Part 1 of this 2-article series, the authors reviewed the problem of unmitigated bias in medical education and proposed a wisdom-based framework for a different way of educating medical students. In this article, Part 2, the authors answer a key question: How can medical educators do better? Is a bias-free environment possible? The answer to the latter question likely is "no." In fact, having a zero-bias goal in mind may blind educators and students to the implicit biases that affect physicians' decisions and actions. Biases appear to be a part of how the human brain works. This article explores ways to neutralize their destructive effects by: (1) increasing awareness of personal biases; (2) using mitigation strategies to protect against the undesirable effects of those biases; (3) working to change some negative biases, particularly learned biases; and (4) fostering positive biases toward others. The authors describe the concrete actions-interpersonal, structural, and cultural actions-that can be taken to reduce negative bias and its destructive effects. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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