A Reflection and Discussion Exercise on Racial Justice and Equity.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Residents have valuable perspectives about diversity and equity in medical training, yet many graduate medical education curricula lack dedicated activities focused on such issues.

Objectives

To describe and report feasibility and acceptability of an innovation that uses individual reflection and group discussion to create conversation in our residency program about equity and injustice through the lens of the Black Lives Matter movement.

Methods

In July 2020, we sent a survey with reflection prompts to all postgraduate year 2 and above internal medicine residents. In the discussion session (during required academic time), we presented 10 of the residents' responses to the reflection prompts. After each response was read aloud, the residents had an open dis

SUBMITTER: Patnaik R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9580319 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature