Racism & Bias in Clinical Practice LEC
Session Description: In ASM, we highlighted several cognitive strategies which clinicians employ in their clinical reasoning. Initial impressions culled from these processes lead to their diagnostic and therapeutic next steps. In this session, we will demonstrate both the positive and negative aspects of these cognitive processes that influence clinicians’ medical decision making. They can be survival mechanisms that allow clinicians to know what is dangerous and what is safe. But they can also be limiting or even harmful when these result in mistreatment of people based on broad characteristics such as race, religion, culture, language, political view, education, or social class.
Speaker: Dr. Joe Truglio
Location: 13-01
Readings: NONE