A monthly webinar series that brings in experts from across academic medicine to help you: 

Transforming Medical Education to Advance Equity and Inclusion | View Recording (registration required)

This video features institutions that are transforming medical education to advance racial equity and create inclusive learning environments. Within the transformational learning framework, medical students, residents, faculty, and staff are challenged to question, criticize, and self-reflect on the inequitable experiences of people within our shared community. This discussion will features senior leadership perspectives and highlight creative approaches to promote equity and inclusion within medical schools. This webinar is presented in partnership with Black in Anatomy – an organization dedicated to creating a safe space to network, uplift, support, and amplify Black contributions to anatomical science.
 

Addressing Microaggressions in Academic Health: A Workshop for Inclusive Excellence | View Recording (registration required)

Health profession schools have acknowledged the need for a diverse workforce by increasing diversity in recruitment, but little has been done to build inclusive excellence in learning environments. Microaggressions and other forms of mistreatment can increase stress levels and depression and negatively impact academic performance. To increase student performance, retention, and wellness, mitigating microaggressions is needed to promote an inclusive culture. The facilitator guide and relevant workshop/course materials are freely available from the AAMC MedEdPORTAL collection to aid in the implementation of this model at other institutions.

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Competencies Across the Learning Continuum | View Recording (registration required)

This video includes a brief review of the new AAMC competencies and the longitudinal and inclusive process to develop them. A panel discussed common challenges and exemplary curricula in competency-based education as it relates to diversity, equity, inclusion and anti-racism.

• Describe the newly released Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) competencies for students, residents, and faculty with a specific focus on some of the less understood concepts;
• Review exemplary curricula and educational practices designed to address racism in medical education; and
• Identify practical strategies to use the DEI competencies to identify gaps in local curricula and educational programs.

Understanding and Addressing Sexual Harassment in Academic Medicine: A New AAMC Report | View Recording (registration required)

This webinar provides an in-depth look at the results from the AAMC's recent publication, Understanding and Addressing Sexual Harassment in Academic Medicine. This webinar will include never-before-seen rates of harassment among faculty across multiple institutions, connections between harassment and engagement and retention, as well as innovative practices to address and prevent harassment from nine qualitative institutional interviews. This report and webinar focuses on gender harassment, the most prevalent but often overlooked, among faculty and explores institutional interventions to prevent these behaviors before they even begin.


Using Inclusive Language in Scholarly Writing | View Recording (registration required)

This video provides a primer for educational scholars who aspire to communication, specifically writing, that is free from bias, inclusive, and accurate in its depiction of identity, health, and risk. Speakers will discuss the principles of using inclusive language across their roles as educators, clinicians, health professions education scholars, and journal reviewers and editors. Speakers also shared available resources and practical strategies that scholars can adopt to align their writing with current best practices around the intentional use of words and descriptors that welcome the diversity of all people and their identities. This webinar concluded with interactive case studies for attendees to practice what they have learned.

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 discussed 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.

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.