Are you ready to confront racism and bias in your health education program? This three-hour interprofessional workshop is sponsored by the Duke Faculty Advancement Seed Grant awarded to School of Nursing for an interprofessional project on "Confronting Racism and Bias: Fostering an Inclusive Community." 

Sign up is still available from 3 to 6 p.m. on Wednesday, Feb. 16.

Target audience for workshop:

• Health Professions Educators (HPEs) from any of the Duke Health Programs
• HPEs who teach in the classroom, clinical setting, lab setting or online
• HPEs interested in confronting racism and bias in our programs The program consists of a 3-hour interactive workshop via Zoom.

Each session is limited to 12 participants. At the end of this session, HPEs will be able to:

1. Better understand their attitudes and behaviors related to diversity, equity, and bias
2. Recognize ways that they can embrace diversity and individual differences in the classroom, lab, online, and clinical settings
3. Use strategies learned to strengthen the Duke community.

Please email Margie Molloy, associate professor, for any questions or to receive updates.

Grant

The grant is entitled "Confronting Racism and Bias in Health Education Programs Using Trigger Films."

Co-Leads: Margie Molloy, associate professor, and Angela Richard-Eaglin, former DUSON assistant professor 

Other project collaborators: Nicole Blodgett, assistant professor and CND director, Valerie Howard, vice dean, Academic Affairs, Beth Phillips, associate professor emerita, and Kathy Andolsek and Andrew Spector from the School of Medicine.

The goal of this project is to mitigate racism and bias-influenced outcomes in health professions education programs through interprofessional collaboration. Participation in this project can empower all faculty, instructors, and other interprofessional health professions educators (HPEs) to act as upstanders, or someone with integrity and courage who recognizes when something is wrong, acts to make it right, and hopefully prevents it from happening again. The workshops will use didactic education, trigger films, and simulation. Trigger films are short educational video vignettes that illustrate a specific theme and focus on social guidance themes that engage the affective domain. Newly created scenarios will present a social or practice issue intended to trigger a response by the viewer, and initiate participant reflection and discussion by highly trained facilitators.