Implicit Bias

In this video, Jamy D. Ard, MD, FTOS, gives advice to new residents who treat patients with obesity.

In this Healio video exclusive, Khadijah Breathett, MD, MS, FACC, FAHA, FHFSA, discusses a framework she co-created to better help researchers address bias, social determinants of health and structural racism in CV care.

Compared with Baby Boomers, Millennial and Gen X oncologists are far more likely to believe that moderate to high levels of racial disparities exist in cancer, study results revealed.

In this video exclusive, Jonathan D. Leffert, MD, talks with Alyson K. Myers, MD, about disparities people with diabetes face and how those social determinants of health impact outcomes.

KANSAS CITY, Missouri — To achieve true justice in kidney health care, clinicians must identify disparities in practice and develop a sustainable plan to address them, according to a presenter at the Annual Dialysis Conference.

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — Providers can help increase patients’ odds of access to transplant by being transparent about candidate standards for application, according to a presenter at the Cutting Edge of Transplantation Summit.

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — Transparency and collaboration are key in helping kidney specialists improve processes for selection of patients for transplantation, according to a presenter at the Cutting Edge of Transplantation Summit.

CHICAGO — Students at every level of medical training have implicit biases that favor people who are male, young, white, thin and non-LGBTQ+, according to research presented at the Women in Medicine Summit.

An education session at the ASCO Annual Meeting will review strategies to address bias and microaggressions in the medical workplace.

CHICAGO — Unconscious bias can be reduced by physicians gaining information through people with different opinions and backgrounds in both the workplace and their personal lives, according to a presenter here.