Recognizing and Reckoning With Unconscious Bias: A Workshop for Health Professions Faculty Search Committees.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

As part of national efforts to reduce disparities in access to care, health professions schools have committed to increasing the proportion of faculty members from underrepresented minority groups. Responsibility for recruiting and vetting candidates for faculty positions, however, tends to rest in decentralized search committees that may receive no training in the science of human judgment. Simply as a product of living in a stratified culture, we form unthinking stereotypes about certain groups of people. Fortunately, when people become sensitized to their unconscious biases, they can minimize cognitive errors.

Methods

This 2-hour workshop is designed to introduce health professions faculty search committee members to the concept of unconscious bias and to spu

SUBMITTER: Cahn PS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6354718 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature