February 24 @ 10:00 am – 11:30 am
Course Objectives
January 21 @ 1:30 pm – 3:00 pm
Course Objectives
Since launching in 2021, UW Medicine’s Bias Reporting Tool has logged over 1,500 incidents. The latest report highlights 460 cases from June 2023 to May 2024, with rising verbal bias in clinical settings. The report helps identify patterns and areas for improvement through policy updates, training, and process changes.
Read the UW Huddle article here:
https://huddle.uwmedicine.org/a-look-at-incidents-of-bias/
Or, directly download and read the Bias Report Tool Third Annual Community Report
A woman’s experience with a pressured C-section and tubal ligation reveals the unsettling reality of coercive sterilization practices and racial bias in healthcare. Dive into her journey of regret, questioning autonomy, and the critical issues of informed consent faced by Black women with sickle cell disease in a system that often prioritizes medical convenience over patient choice.
Read the full article here:
https://www.statnews.com/2024/05/21/sickle-cell-patients-steered-toward-sterilization-for-decades/
Junyan Shi, Edwin G Lindo, Geoffrey S Baird, Bessie Young, Michael Ryan, J Ashley Jefferson, Rajnish Mehrotra, Patrick C Mathias, Andrew N Hoofnagle
From Science Direct: Changing from MDRD to CKD-EPINoRace could lead to a lower referral rate to nephrology. The distributions of creatinine and eGFR calculated with CKD-EPINoRace were not meaningfully different in Black and non-Black patients. Read the full article here.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0009898121001789
Batman, Samantha MD, MPH; Rivlin, Katherine MD; Robinson, Whitney PhD; Brown, Oluwateniola MD; Carter, Ebony B. MD, MPH; Lindo, Edwin JD
From Obstetrics & Gynecology: The Steering Committee for the Obstetrics & Gynecology special edition titled “Racism in Reproductive Health: Lighting a Path to Health Equity” formed a working group to create an equity rubric. The goal was to provide a tool to help researchers systematically center health equity as they conceptualize, design, analyze, interpret, and evaluate research in obstetrics and gynecology. This commentary reviews the rationale, iterative process, and literature guiding the creation of the equity rubric. Read the full article here.
Use this toolkit created by Virginia Mason Institute to guide you and your team through an exercise to practice speaking up for yourself or others.
This toolkit was created by Virginial Mason Institute.
Teams can use this toolkit to navigate through discussions on equity topics in a meaningful and safe manner.
This toolkit, created by Virginia Mason Institute, can be used alone or alongside the Equity Pause toolkit.
Unveiling the Hidden Struggles: New Research Reveals Discrimination Faced by Asian American Women in the U.S.
” Largely, Asian American women are thought of as faceless, quiet and invisible, or as sexual objects. In addition to the myth of the ‘Model Minority’ and the ‘Forever Foreigner,’ these depictions and others have persisted in the media and popular culture. What are the current experiences of discrimination in terms of racism and sexism for Asian American women?”
