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This interactive and action-focused workshop was created to increase participant confidence in identifying bias in medical teaching cases. This workshop can be tailored for multiple medical education or health professions audiences and is highly modifiable. Participants are asked to complete a short reading before attending. D uring the workshop, participants are introduced social and structural determinants of health as well as the concept of structural competency. In breakout groups, participants ...

This talk will integrate both the speaker's lived experience with serious mental illness as a practicing physician with actionable insights to promote both self growth and institutional change. We will look both inwards and outwards to examine the detractors of mental well-being in medicines. Dr Bullock will identify the ways that our actions and medical culture more broadly may perpetuate the current narratives around mental illness. Finally, he will leverage Kotter's 8 stages of change management ...

Anti-fat bias has been increasing in the United States since the designation of “obesity” as a disease. In fact, it is the only implicit bias tracked by the Harvard Implicit Attitudes Test (IAT) that has increased during this time. Healthcare is one of the major sources of anti-fat bias, which undermines our attempts to improve the health of people at the higher end of the weight spectrum. As increased attention turns in our profession to the role of structural determinants of health equity, ...