Background: An increasing amount of literature demonstrates the detrimental impact of discrimination and microaggressions at personal and institutional levels in the healthcare workplace (1-5). Confronting these displays of bias involves a multifaceted approach across professional disciplines and hierarchies. Residency is a time when physicians experience and learn to navigate bias (6). To address this, we […]

Background: Anti-racism education is increasing across academic institutions; however, physicians have varied levels of skill addressing racist microaggressions. Microresistance Communication Tools (MCTs) are frameworks developed to respond to microaggressions and are common devices used in microaggression trainings. Prior studies evaluating MCT trainings primarily measured change in confidence but rarely objectively assessed ability to apply these […]