Abstract Details

Title Creation of a Faculty Development Curriculum to Reduce the Impact of Racial/Ethnic Bias on Medical Students

Topic ��ɫ��, Research, and Methodology

Presentation(s) P5 - Poster Session 5 (11:45 AM-12:45 PM)

Poster/Presentation
Number 15-003

Objective

To design, implement, and evaluate a curriculum for faculty to reduce the impact of racial/ethnic bias on neurology clerkship students.

Background Bias in medical education leads to inequity in student grading for those who identify with a marginalized racial/ethnic group. Although numerous studies document this problem, strategies to counteract bias remain a topic of active inquiry.

Design/Methods Students who rotated on the Neurology clerkship between 2018-2020 completed an anonymous needs assessment survey focused on race/ethnicity, clerkship grade, and experiences of bias and/or stereotype threat. Using Kern’s framework of curricular development, we designed a 90-minute faculty workshop, dedicating 30 minutes to educating with descriptive statistics and exemplar quotes from student survey results and 60 minutes to discussion exercises. Effectiveness of the workshop was evaluated through (1) student surveys administered during the 2020-2022 academic years in tandem with curriculum rollout, and (2) a post-session faculty survey assessing participant knowledge and awareness.

Results 55 students (response rate = 28%) completed our needs assessment survey, and our follow-up survey was completed by 108 students (response rate = 50%). 23.6% of students in the initial survey reported they felt their evaluation was “moderately” or “considerably” influenced by bias versus 6.5% in the follow-up survey. In the initial survey, 46.2% of individuals who identified with a race/ethnic background marginalized in medicine reported experiencing “moderate” or “considerable” stereotype threat that impacted their clerkship performance, versus 15% in the follow-up survey. 35 of 58 faculty responded to our survey after the initial workshop (response rate = 60%). 40% “never” or “rarely” considered the impact of bias on clerkship students, and 74% could not recall any witnessed specific examples of bias over the last year.

Conclusions We successfully created and implemented a workshop to educate faculty on the impact of racial/ethnic bias on clerkship students, and have seen early success on student perception.

Authors/Disclosures
Robert I. Thompson-Stone, MD, FAAN (University of Rochester) PRESENTER	Dr. Thompson-Stone has received personal compensation in the range of $500-$4,999 for serving as a Krabbe Disease expert with Advisory Committee on Heritable Disorders in Newborns and Children (ACHDNC). Dr. Thompson-Stone has a non-compensated relationship as a Editorial Board Member with Neurology: ��ɫ�� Journal that is relevant to AAN interests or activities.
	No disclosure on file
Ramya Sampath	Mrs. Sampath has nothing to disclose.
	No disclosure on file
Melanie Braun, MD (University of Rochester Medical Center)	Dr. Braun has nothing to disclose.

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