Engaging faculty in a workshop intervention on overcoming the influence of implicit bias.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

To study the effectiveness of any educational intervention for faculty requires first that they attend the training. Using attendance as a measure of faculty engagement, this study examined factors associated with the percentage of faculty in divisions of departments of medicine who attended a workshop as part of a multisite study.

Methods

Between October 2018 and March 2020, 1675 of 4767 faculty in 120 divisions of 14 departments of medicine attended a 3-hour in-person workshop as part of the Bias Reduction in Internal Medicine (BRIM) initiative. This paper describes the workshop development and study design. The number of faculty per division ranged from 5 to 296. Attendance rates varied from 2.7% to 90.1%. Taking a quality improvement approach, the study team

SUBMITTER: Carnes M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8327611 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature