Racial/Gender Biases in Student Clinical Decision-Making: a Mixed-Method Study of Medical School Attributes Associated with Lower Incidence of Biases.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Accumulating evidence suggests that clinician racial/gender decision-making biases in some instances contribute to health disparities. Previous work has produced evidence of such biases in medical students.

Objective

To identify contextual attributes in medical schools associated on average with low levels of racial/gender clinical decision-making biases.

Design

A mixed-method design using comparison case studies of 15 medical schools selected based on results of a previous survey of student decision-making bias: 7 schools whose students collectively had, and 8 schools whose students had not shown evidence of such biases.

Participants

Purposively sampled faculty, staff, underrepresented minority medical students, and clinical-level medical students a

SUBMITTER: Williams RL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6258638 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature