Patient perspectives on racial and ethnic implicit bias in clinical encounters: Implications for curriculum development

In North America, after several decades of focus on cultural competency instruction in medical education [1 –3], health disparities persist [4,5] and racial and ethnic minority respondents are still more likely to perceive bias when seeking medical treatment than Whites [6]. Implicit bias refers to the unconscious and unintentional assumptions people make about each other. Evidence demonstrates this bia s negatively impacts patient’s perceptions of the clinical encounter [7–9] treatment recommendations [10], and trust [11–14].

Source: Patient Education and Counseling - May 20, 2018 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Cristina M. Gonzalez, Maria L. Deno, Emily Kintzer, Paul R. Marantz, Monica L. Lypson, M. Diane McKee Source Type: research