12:00-1:00PM
Dr. Maydianne Andrade
Professor, Canada Research Chair, Vice-Dean Faculty Affairs and Equity
Title: Bias, Racism, and Challenges to Inclusion
Summary: Assessment of professional achievement is a fundamental feature of most careers, where it...
12:00-1:00PM
Dr. Maydianne Andrade
Professor, Canada Research Chair, Vice-Dean Faculty Affairs and Equity
Title: Bias, Racism, and Challenges to Inclusion
Summary: Assessment of professional achievement is a fundamental feature of most careers, where it affects hiring, compensation, resource availability, and promotion. Here I outline research demonstrating systematic biases in the assessment of the competence and achievements of Black and other racialized persons. I give examples of negative outcomes that arise from unconscious biases based on common stereotypes, and discuss how these can negatively affect representation and career progression. I also outline the ways in which biases may operate within systems (policies, practices and norms) that can themselves lead to systematic disadvantage which outlive any one actor. I then review some data-driven structural and personal approaches that may mitigate these challenges and support success in building inclusive teams of diverse colleagues.
Learning Objectives:
- Explain how unconscious bias can arise from the way in which we (humans) think and make decisions.
- Describe the distinction between (personal) bias and structural/systemic racism.
- Provide concrete examples of the negative impacts of bias or structural/systemic racism on racialized professionals.
- Name several recommended practices for decreasing bias or for reconsidering structural/systemic barriers to inclusion
1:00-2:00PM
Dr. Ewurabena Simpson
Medical Director, Sickle Cell Disease Program
Black Health Theme Lead, University of Ottawa Faculty of Medicine
Interim Program Director, Pediatric Hematology / Oncology Fellowship Program
Assistant Professor, University of Ottawa
Title: Racism as a Social Determinant of Health – The Impact of Racism on Sickle Cell Disease
Summary: Race is a poor proxy for genetic variation and the use of race as a biological proxy in medicine is harmful. Unfortunately, race-based medicine persists in medical education and legitimizes racist generalizations while contributing to racial disparities in disease management and access to evidence-based care. In Canada, Black, Indigenous and other racialized groups face systemic discrimination and receive inferior treatment in our health care system. As a result, individuals with sickle cell disease are often profiled and experience delays in their treatment because of racism that exists at systemic and individual levels. Despite the severity and history of these disturbing trends, it is possible to dismantle systemic racism in health care through intentional reform by health care professionals and educators, patients and policy makers.
Learning Objectives:
- To discuss the impact of racism on health outcomes
- To describe the effect of racism on outcome and treatment of sickle cell disease
- To clarify the roles of the health care team and the patient for eliminating racism within our health system
2:00-3:00PM
Dr. Denice Lewis
Lecturer, Department of Family Medicine
Curriculum and Academic Day Director, Postgraduate Family Medicine, University of Ottawa
Title: So now what? Effecting anti-racism changes in a postgraduate medical curriculum
Summary: This session will walk through the development of an anti-racist curriculum intervention in a family medicine residency program.
Learning Objectives:
- be able to describe a general approach to curriculum development,
- be able to recognize the specific considerations related to anti-racist/race conscious curriculum development, and
- have the opportunity to review anti-racist/race conscious curriculum development in a family medicine residency program.
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