Speakers: Ashley Walker, M.D.
Speaker Disclosures: No speaker disclosures
Professional Practice Gap: • Clinician bias contributes to healthcare disparities, and the language used to describe a patient may reflect that bias. However, clinicians are not routinely trained in recognizing and reducing bias in their medical documentation.
Learning Objectives:
- Recognize that stigmatizing language in clinical documentation and oral presentations can propagate clinician bias and deleteriously impact patient care
- Identify and revise stigmatizing language in a clinical vignette
- Identify one area for decreasing your own use of biased, oppressive documentation