Bias Breakers: Continuous Practice for Admissions and Selection Committees.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Admissions and selection committees face challenges in identifying and mitigating biases in policies, processes, and discussions. Past bias training has focused on defining bias and presenting the negative impact of bias for committees.

Methods

This interactive training used committee comments, reflection, and audience response to enhance the contextual recognition of bias in admissions and selection processes and practices. For each bias type, we presented specific mitigation strategies and examples. The workshop was offered at four medical schools between December 2020 and April 2021. Participants were committee members (n = 126), largely medical school faculty, involved in MD, MD/PhD, and residency program selection at participating schools. A paired p

SUBMITTER: Nakae S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9663337 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature