Career Development Pathway
Core Curriculum for Fellows
Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
Education Pathway
Medical Education
Trainee Pathway
Rachel Poeppelman, MD, MHPE (she/her/hers)
Assistant Professor
University of Minnesota Masonic Children's Hospital
Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
Anna Volerman, MD (she/her/hers)
Associate Professor of Medicine and Pediatrics
University of Chicago
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Justin Triemstra, MD, MHPE
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics and Human Development
Pediatrics
Spectrum Health/Michigan State University
Grand Rapids, Michigan, United States
Lauren McPherson, MD, MPH, MAT (she/her/hers)
Fellow
University of Minnesota Medical School
Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
There is a pressing need to increase diversity in medicine and to better support diverse trainees. The presence of implicit bias on the basis of gender and race in the assessment of medical students and residents is well documented. This bias not only threatens the validity of assessment data and the high-stakes decisions made based on it (e.g., awards, chief resident), but also impedes the professional development and advancement of diverse trainees (e.g., faculty positions, promotion). In this workshop, participants will learn how to recognize common trends in narrative assessment data reflecting bias, as identified in the literature. We will review best practices of feedback from the literature which can be applied to both written and verbal narrative assessment (e.g specific comments, a focus on directly observed actions, etc.). Participants will practice applying these best practices to decrease bias in narrative assessment through role play of common scenarios. Facilitators will highlight frameworks to apply to the problem of assessment bias and review strategies from the education and business literature for mitigation of bias. Participants will then work in groups to apply these strategies and frameworks to develop a comprehensive, systemic approach to assessment bias for their own institution. At the conclusion of the workshop, participants will have developed practical approaches to mitigate bias both individually and systematically with relevant action steps that they can apply upon return to their institution.