Seeking Inclusion Excellence: Understanding Racial Microaggressions as Experienced by Underrepresented Medical and Nursing Students.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

To describe how racial microaggressions may affect optimal learning for under-represented health professions students.

Method

The authors conducted focus groups and individual interviews from November 2017 to June 2018 with 37 students at University of California, Davis and Yale University who self-identified as underrepresented in medicine or nursing. Questions explored incidence, response to, and effects of racial microaggressions, as well as students' suggestions for change. Data were organized and coded, then thematic analysis was used to identify themes and subthemes.

Results

The data showed consistent examples of microaggressions across both health professions and schools, with peers, faculty, preceptors, and structural elements of the curricula all cont

SUBMITTER: Ackerman-Barger K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7185051 | biostudies-literature | 2020 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature