An Interactive Guide for Unconscious Bias Management in the Workplace
This is an interactive toolkit for School of Medicine and Medstar faculty and staff to create a more equitable workplace through understanding unconscious bias.
Each one of us has an innate unconscious bias: social stereotypes about certain groups of people that we form outside our own conscious awareness (UCSF Diversity and Outreach). These biases may affect our treatment of others, particularly in the appointment and promotion process and in creating an inclusive workspace.
What is Bias?
Learn more about:
Conscious vs. unconscious bias
The scope of bias
The ways that our biases influence the way the way we work with others.
Read this recent study from the Journal of General Medicine at this link: Race could be a determinant in physician-patient interactions and pain treatment in cancer.…
Dr. Tiffani Johnson and her team demonstrate the results of several studies on implicit bias. Dr. Johnson’s team found increased post-shift racial bias when the Emergency Department (ED) was more overcrowded. Racial bias also increased when residents were made to care for more patients during their shift. …