VIDEO: Curricula is ‘just scratching the surface’ on incorporating DEI into GI training
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In a new Healio video series, which focuses on topics in diversity, equity and inclusion with members of ASGE’s DEI subcommittee, Yakira David, MD, MBBS, outlined the importance of emphasizing DEI in gastroenterology training.
At the patient level, knowledge of DEI topics has been shown to mitigate both unconscious and implicit biases which lead to poorer outcomes, decreased treatment satisfaction and higher health care costs, David, an advanced endoscopist at the Mayo Clinic in Mankato, Minn., said. Consequently, patients who feel misunderstood or judged by their providers endure delays in preventive care measures and worsened disease progression.
One way of increasing DEI training during fellowship and beyond is to incorporate these topics into presentations at various societal meetings.
“It should be important that, in guiding speakers when they come to give presentations about any topic, that if there are relevant DEI issues around that topic that they'll be incorporated within it,” David said. “Plenary sessions should also incorporate DEI topics to ensure that a larger catchment area of gastroenterologists are exposed to all the different DEI issues that currently affect our practice and our interaction with each other.”
She continued, “we are just scratching the surface here. There’s a lot more work that needs to be done in terms of developing curricula both at the fellowship training level as well as the continuing medical education level.”
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