Cultural Humility Curriculum to Address Healthcare Disparities for Emergency Medicine Residents.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Emergency medicine (EM) residency programs have variable approaches to educating residents on recognizing and managing healthcare disparities. We hypothesized that our curriculum with resident-presented lectures would increase residents' sense of cultural humility and ability to identify vulnerable populations.

Methods

At a single-site, four-year EM residency program with 16 residents per year, we designed a curriculum intervention from 2019-2021 where all second-year residents selected one healthcare disparity topic and gave a 15-minute presentation overviewing the disparity, describing local resources, and facilitating a group discussion. We conducted a prospective observational study to assess the impact of the curriculum by electronically surveying all curre

SUBMITTER: Tsuchida RE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10047734 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature