Planning for diverse, equitable, inclusive research in health professions education: An integral thread in the ARMED MedEd research course.

ABSTRACT: Racism in medicine affects patients, trainees, and practitioners and contributes to health care inequities. An effective strategy to actively oppose the structural racism ingrained in the fabric of medicine is to intentionally and systematically address diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) in medical education and research. As part of ARMED MedEd, a new longitudinal cohort course in advanced research methods in medical education, sponsored by the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine, the leadership team deliberately included a nested DEI curriculum. The goal of the DEI curriculum is to reduce bias in development, recruitment, and implementation of education research studies to promote equity and inclusion in medical education, research, and ultimately, patient care. A team of medical

SUBMITTER: Coates WC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8480509 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature