My group is Health and Health Care. The article I read was State of The Science: Implicit Bias Review by Staats, Cheryl et al. The purpose of this article is to inform providers of the threat of implicit bias and that it is present in all facets of healthcare from Oncologists, to med school students. This article also aim to reduce implicit bias within healthcare. Some main points in the article come mostly from studies done within the workplace of healthcare professionals. The studies, various in methods, found much evidence of implicit bias, and outside of the studies, the message was clear that implicit bias is sickening the relationship between doctor and patient and something has to be done about it. Making staff at a med school take an implicit association test proved to be effective in that the school had the highest diverse enrollment since the school was opened (43). I believe if this happened everywhere, it would definitely reduce implicit bias everywhere. Three quotes that I will share with my group are:
- “First, they predicted
that physicians with higher implicit racial bias
would tend to use first-person plural pronouns
(e.g., we, us, our) more often than first-person
singular pronouns (e.g., I, me, my) in comparison
to their professional counterparts with lower
levels of implicit racial bias.” - “Recognizing that health care settings can often
be hectic environments featuring stress, fatigue,
time pressures, and other factors that can
increase cognitive load, previous research has
considered the notion that this environment
may be conducive to biases.” - “authors discussed four possible manifestations of implicit
bias that can harm outcomes for pediatric
patients, including racialized health disparities,
stereotype threat, racial microaggressions, and
language use.”
Work Cited: Staats, Cheryl et. al., “State of The Science: Implicit Bias Review” 2017 edition, p. 39-47 kirwanintitute.osu.edu