Bias, Inclusion & Residency Training

This session provides an overview of how bias can affect trainees across the residency journey — from the application process through training and evaluation. Trainees and leaders will explore how implicit and structural biases may manifest in clinical and academic medical environments and how these dynamics can impact the residency experience.

Facilitators will introduce ways to interrupt bias, respond to harmful patterns, and build upstander skills within hierarchical training contexts.

Learning Outcomes

• Identify ways bias can influence residency training and progression;
• Recognize personal and structural impacts of bias on trainees;
• Apply practical strategies to interrupt or respond to bias in clinical and academic settings;
• Distinguish between bystander and upstander roles and build upstander skills.

Audience

Residents, clinical fellows, residency program directors, and medical education leaders