Standup comedy principles and the personal monologue to explore interpersonal bias: experiential learning in a health disparities course.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Interpersonal biases between clinicians and patients contribute to disparities in health care and outcomes by race, ethnicity, and socioeconomic status. We used standup comedy principles and exercises to help medical students recognize how others perceive them and how they perceive others, and engage in difficult discussions around implicit biases and interpersonal racism.

Methods

90 min Zoom workshop with 40 first-year medical students in urban medical school. Intervention consisted of three exercises: Naming icebreaker, Rant and Rave (communicate strong perspective clearly), and Personal Monologue about how others perceive you and how you perceive yourself. Discussion debriefed the personal monologue exercise. Likert scale questions on post-session survey evalua

SUBMITTER: Chin MH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8817666 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature