Eliminating microaggressions in pediatric education
A patient is told their name is hard to pronounce. A doctor tells another doctor they speak English really well. While doing rounds, a resident is asked if she eats ‘strange foods’. These are examples of microagressions—behaviours or remarks rooted in unconscious bias, which can be related to elements of a person’s identity such as race, gender, religion, sexuality or […]
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