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- Title
Helping medical learners recognise and manage unconscious bias toward certain patient groups.
- Authors
Teal, Cayla R; Gill, Anne C; Green, Alexander R; Crandall, Sonia
- Abstract
For the last 30 years, developments in cognitive sciences have demonstrated that human behaviour, beliefs and attitudes are shaped by automatic and unconscious cognitive processes. Only recently has much attention been paid to how unconscious biases based on certain patient characteristics may: (i) result in behaviour that is preferential toward or against specific patients; (ii) influence treatment decisions, and (iii) adversely influence the patient-doctor relationship. Partly in response to accreditation requirements, medical educators are now exploring how they might help students and residents to develop awareness of their own potential biases and strategies to mitigate them.
- Publication
Medical education, 2012, Vol 46, Issue 1, p80
- ISSN
1365-2923
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1365-2923.2011.04101.x