Recognizing Privilege and Bias: An Interactive Exercise to Expand Health Care Providers’ Personal Awareness
Project LEARN Category
L- Listen
E- Educate
A - Acknowledge
R - Respond
Intended Audience(s)
Theme/Focus
Racism
Activism
Training
Article Details
Holm, Amanda L. MPH; Rowe Gorosh, Marla MD; Brady, Megan MPH, MSW; White-Perkins, Denise MD, PhD. Recognizing Privilege and Bias: An Interactive Exercise to Expand Health Care Providers’ Personal Awareness. Academic Medicine 92(3):p 360-364, March 2017. | DOI: 10.1097/ACM.0000000000001290
Article Abstract
Despite increasing awareness of the social determinants of health, health care disparities among sociocultural groups persist. Health care providers’ unconscious bias resulting from unrecognized social privilege is one contributor to these disparities.