Table 2 Educational models identified in curricula addressing post-graduate physicians’ implicit bias toward patients
From: Confronting implicit bias toward patients: a scoping review of post-graduate physician curricula
Educational model | Description | n (%) Total reported: |
|---|---|---|
Competence Models | Seek to increase learners’ knowledge about diverse populations and awareness of their own implicit bias, often via self-reflection exercises. Often informed by Pedersen’s [14] foundational Awareness/Knowledge/Skills prototype for culture-centered counseling | 30 (54%) |
Critical Models | Contextualize implicit bias within larger systems of inequity and seek to prepare learners to catalyze structural change that extends beyond individual clinical interactions | 11 (20%) |
Skills-Based Models | Employ self-reflection combined with training in specific, evidence-based strategies from Social Cognitive Psychology (e.g. individuation, perspective-taking) | 9 (17%) |
Social Contact Models | Incorporate evidence from Social Cognitive Psychology to facilitate interactions between clinicians and diverse patients under conditions [15] intended to reduce bias | 6 (11%) |