I-RANT: Training session on a novel, scripted, bystander microaggression intervention tool for medical students.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Microaggressions, subtle and often unintentional acts of hostility, have been recognized as a significant issue in healthcare, adversely affecting learners' emotional and physical well-being. Current strategies for addressing microaggressions are broad frameworks without empirical substantiation that leave learners without a clear direction for intervention. This study introduces a novel scripted, succinct, bystander intervention tool to combat microaggressions. The intervention tool developed by the research team, named I-RANT, follows the script of introduction, role naming, affirming the target, negating the microaggression, and transitioning within patient encounters. The study goal was to assess the ability of a training session to impact learners' recognition of mi

SUBMITTER: Grass E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11657221 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature