Date/Time
Date(s) - October 30, 2024
12:00 pm - 1:30 pm

Location
David Braley Health Sciences Centre (Room 1005A)

Note: this event is fully in person (Room 1005A is on the 1st floor of DBHSC; next to the pharmacy). There is no hybrid option. Food will be served!

Registration: https://meritmcmaster.ticketleap.com/merit-thinktank-october-2024/

Reimagining Patient Representation in Curriculum – A Clinical Reasoning-Bias Reduction Approach

Dr. Jeffrey Cheung, Department of Medical Education, University of Illinois College of Medicine

A narrative review of bias in health professions education is being conducted with an aim to inform educational approaches used to address clinician bias towards patient groups with theories of expertise and bias from the clinical reasoning and cognitive psychology literature. Dr. Cheung is building an alternative conceptualization of patient representation in medical training, and for considering the implications for who is represented, what patients are represented with, and how group biases may arise from our approach to patient representation.