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Improving the Learning Environment for LGBTQ+ Medical Students | View Recording (registration required)

Due to persistent LGBTQ+ health disparities and negative interactions with the healthcare system, there is significant focus on improving medical education curricula to train medical students and health systems to better care for LGBTQ+ patients. While we focus on improving the experience of LGBTQ+ patients in an inequitable system, less attention has been paid to the experience of LGBTQ+ medical students learning in that same system. The medical school learning environment impacts student's mental health, academic performance, and quality of life. Ensuring an equitable learning environment is critical for the recruitment and retention of diverse students, and student wellbeing.

In this webinar, presenters will discused current knowledge and gaps about how the medical school learning environment impacts LGBTQ+ medical students. Further, presenters highlighted practices that faculty and leadership at medical schools can employ to improve the learning environment for LGBTQ+ medical students.

Strategies for Promoting Antiracist Research in Medical Education | View Recording (registration required)

Whereas racist research historically has posed the question, “What is wrong with people?” antiracist research asks “What is wrong with policies and systems?” Framing research on race and racism around antiracist questions leads to antiracist narratives, effective policy solutions, and impactful programming that cuts to the root of racial inequality. All researchers can play important roles in shifting the culture of academic medicine to intentionally implement equitable and inclusive policies, set norms for acceptable workplace conduct, develop accurate antiracist curricula, and provide equitable opportunities for mentorship and networking.  

During this session, presenter will discuss how the academic research agenda can be used to promote equity, inclusion, and antiracism. Presenters will highlight promising practices that leaders and researchers can employ to build an antiracist research agenda in medical education as well as the benefits of this work. 

Understanding American Indian and Alaska Native Identities: Considerations for Medical School and Residency Programs | View Recording (registration required)
There is a need for more intentional efforts to fully engage American Indian and Alaska Native communities. Part of this work involves understanding the history of colonization and its role in framing and defining the identities of American Indians and Alaska Natives in the United States, and how this translates into admissions and selection policies and practices. This is necessary as pre-medical students in the admissions process and medical students during residency interviews have reported incidents where their identity as American Indian or Alaska Native is questioned in ways that do not exemplify values of respect or professionalism. In collaboration with the Association of American Indian Physicians and the Association of Native American Medical Students, this session will outline data, describe how American Indian and Alaska Native identity is different from other historically excluded groups in medicine, and clarify the constellation of external factors that influence American Indian and Alaska Native identity. 

Developing the Next Generation of Physicians to Advance Inclusion, Justice, and Racial Equity | View Recording (registration required)
Learner and faculty speakers describe how they developed educational opportunities to advance racial equity, justice, and inclusion at their institutions. Speakers discuss how they overcame challenges and how similar educational experiences can be replicated at other medical schools and teaching hospitals in the United States.
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Socially Accountable Admissions: Using a different lens to evaluate medical school applicants and promote workforce diversity | View Recording (registration required)
This recorded webinar highlights effective strategies that schools have used to increase enrollment of historically underrepresented and excluded students. This webinar features speakers from the UC-Davis School of Medicine, who discussed the admissions tools, recruitment policies and practices, community partnerships, innovative pathways programs, and mission-focused school tracks they have developed and implemented. Development of a socio-economic disadvantage score and its utility in inclusive admissions will be highlighted. Together, these efforts have contributed to the school's ability to not only sustain increased matriculation of a diverse student body but also foster individual thriving and achievement of institutional mission and goals focused on community health. 

Racial Literacy for Health Care Providers | View recording (registration required)
During this webinar, presenters will discuss how health care providers can strategically deconstruct racial information and knowledge, build healthy cross- and same-racial relationships, flexibly reconstruct their racial identity, willfully choose racial styles and self-expression, and assertively counter racial stereotypes.

Effective Unconscious Bias Training Models for Health Professions Faculty and Staff | View recording (registration required)
Unconscious bias is with us every day, and it affects our capacity to achieve equity. There are promising solutions in the works. Providing unconscious bias training to faculty and staff may reduce discrimination and mitigate the impact of bias in the education and training of the health care workforce.