Recognizing and Responding to Overt Racism Towards Medical Trainees: Using the IRES Tool and Scripted Language.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Medical educators feel ill equipped to respond to racism directed towards trainees. Available tools for responding to microaggressions rely on clarifying questions or aligning with the aggressor, which may add to the harm experienced by the target. We aimed to provide methods for faculty to recognize and respond to overt racism so that trainees feel supported in the clinical learning environment.

Methods

We created a faculty development workshop with didactic and experiential learning components based on Kolb's theory for program leadership to teach how to respond when racism was directed towards trainees. In the didactic session, we shared the IRES (identify, respond, end, support) tool we created to respond to overt racism. Participants took part in two small-

SUBMITTER: Gibbons SM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11500618 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature