Faculty Development Workshop Lecture Series:
Stigma in Medicine - The Power of Language
2/21, 7:00am-8:00am

Presented by:

• Ashley Walker, MD (she/her/hers)
  Psychiatry Residency Training Director
  Professor, Department of Psychiatry
  School of Community Medicine
  The University of Oklahoma - Tulsa

• Melissa Chen, MD
  Medical Director, Interprofessional Community Clinic (ICC)
  Assistant Dean, Office of Excellence in Diversity & Inclusion, CMS
  Associate Professor, Department of Medicine
  Chicago Medical School
  Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science

Description:
Documentation and oral presentation serve several critical functions within a clinical team. Depending on how patients are described, including historically stigmatized descriptors, clinicians may perpetuate the codification of racial disparities in service delivery, teaching trainees racist ideas and communicating biases to other clinicians. Current research has shown that documentation has the power to influence diagnostic and treatment decisions independent of other factors. In this session, participants will recognize that stigmatizing language in clinical documentation and oral presentations can propagate bias from one clinician to another, deleteriously influencing diagnostic and treatment decisions. And, participants will reflect on anti-racist documentation practices using sample vignettes and case examples.

Learning Objectives:
Upon completion of this webinar, attendees will be able to:

1. Recognize that stigmatizing language in clinical documentation and oral presentations can propagate bias from one clinician to another, deleteriously influencing diagnostic and treatment decisions
2. Identify stigmatizing language within a sample written clinical vignette
3. Revise a written vignette to use person-first, antioppressive language

Webex: https://rowan.webex.com/rowan/j.php?MTID=m6c2cf9445cd9c06842b14df5a9f37af8

For More Information: Please contact: Steve Garwood (856) 566-7177