Reading Materials

INCLUSION. DIVERSITY. EQUITY. ANTI-RACISM. SOCIAL JUSTICE

Values

• The Psychology of Change: Self-Affirmation and Social Psychological Intervention

• Healthcare Practitioners’ Personal and Professional Values

Bias and Stereotypes

• Structural Racism and Health Inequities in the USA: Evidence and Interventions

• What is Discrimination?

• Belief in a Just World, Perceived Fairness, and Justification of the Status Quo

• Racial Bias in Pain Assessment and Treatment Recommendations, and False Beliefs About Biological

• Differences Between Blacks and Whites 

• Look Black in Anger: The Role of Implicit Prejudice in the Categorization and Perceived Emotional Intensity of Racially Ambiguous Faces

• The Curious Case of Confirmation Bias

• Following in the Wake of Anger: When Not Discriminating is Discriminating 

• Interviewed while Black 

History

• The US Medical System is Still Haunted by Slavery

Strategies

• Black Maternal and Infant Health: Historical Legacies of Slavery

• Applying a Critical Race Lens to Relationship-Centered Care in Pregnancy and Childbirth: An Antidote to Structural Racism 

• Structural Competency: Theorizing a New Medical Engagement with Stigma and Inequality 

• Avoiding Unintended Bias: Strategies for Providing More Equitable Healthcare 

University of Washington and UW Medicine Resources

• University of Washington 2018 Diversity Metrics Data Book. Board of Regents Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Advisory Committee 

• UW Medicine. Healthcare Equity Blueprint

Medical Education

• Experiential Communications Curriculum to Improve Resident Preparedness When Responding to Discriminatory Comments in the Workplace 

• Perceived Microaggressions in Healthcare: A Measurement Study 

• Closing the Gap – Making Medical School Admissions More Equitable 

• “Yes, I’m the Doctor”: One Department’s Approach to Assessing and Addressing Gender-Based Discrimination in the Modern Medical Training Era 

Diversity in the Workforce

• Human Capital or Cultural Taxation: What Accounts for Differences in Tenure and Promotion of Racialized and Female Faculty? 

• Structural Solutions for the Rarest of the Rare – Underrepresented Minority Faculty in Medical Subspecialties

• Inequities in Academic Compensation by Gender: A Follow-Up to the National Faculty Survey Cohort Study 

• Race-Conscious Professionalism and African American Representation in Academic Medicine 

• Do Individuals from Low-Income Families Belong in Medicine? (Yes!)