Tools for Addressing Microaggressions: An Interactive Workshop for Perioperative Trainees.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Graduate trainees from diverse backgrounds may experience discrimination, mistreatment, and microaggressions. While the ability to identify and respond to microaggressions is a much-needed skill for all emerging trainees, limited training workshops exist for residents, especially within perioperative medicine. To embody the principles of diversity, equity, inclusion, and anti-racism (DEIA), we aimed to empower trainees in the perioperative environment with several strategies for addressing microaggressions to bridge this training gap.

Methods

Based on critical race theory, transformative learning, minority stress theory, and the structural theory of gender and power, this workshop was developed with the primary aim of educating trainees on microaggressions, ampl

SUBMITTER: Hill Weller L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10682127 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature