Racial Implicit Bias and Communication Among Physicians in a Simulated Environment.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Racial implicit bias can contribute to health disparities through its negative influence on physician communication with Black patients. Interventions for physicians to address racial implicit bias in their clinical encounters are limited by a lack of high-fidelity (realistic) simulations to provide opportunities for skill development and practice.

Objective

To describe the development and initial evaluation of a high-fidelity simulation of conditions under which physicians might be influenced by implicit racial bias.

Design, setting, and participants

This cross-sectional study, performed on an online platform from March 1 to September 30, 2022, recruited a convenience sample of physician volunteers to pilot an educational simulation.

Exposures

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SUBMITTER: Gonzalez CM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10955368 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature