Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
Trainee
Abimbola Dairo Oguntebi, MD (she/her/hers)
Co-Founder & Co-Lead of Pediatric Culturally Responsive & Inclusive Care, Attending Physician
Kaiser Permanente - Santa Clara Medical Center, California, United States
Emma Steinberg, MD, Chef (she/her/hers)
Pediatric Hospitalist
Mass General Brigham - Newton Wellesley Hospital, Tufts University School of Medicine, United States
Tricia Tayama, MD MPH (she/her/hers)
Medical Director, Child Abuse Services and Prevention
TPMG Santa Clara
Santa Clara, California, United States
Workshop
Description: Many hospitals and academic medical systems have anti-racist aspirations but struggle with practical ways to incorporate these ideals into clinical care environments. It is often challenging to find the right way, space, and time to have frank and productive discussions about racism and health equity at work, even though these concepts have a direct impact on patient care and staff experiences. Racial and Health Equity (RHE) Morbidity and Mortality (M&M) conferences are facilitated, multidisciplinary case-discussions that use an approach informed by psychological safety and cultural humility to address racial and health inequities in recent, complex inpatient pediatrics cases at community hospitals. Modeled after the familiar format of M&M conferences, RHE M&Ms create a shared platform for all staff from pediatric inpatient physicians to nursing, child life, and social work staff to meaningfully discuss racism and health equity. The unique facilitation strategies we use allow participants to have frame-shifting discussions about race, identity, power, and privilege. Specifically, in post-discussion surveys, participants report improved skills in addressing their own implicit biases that come up while delivering clinical care and feeling empowered to identify bias in future patient encounters. In this session, participants will learn, via a train-the-trainer model, how to utilize the facilitation strategies that have made these discussions about racism successful in clinical medicine settings. Participants will leave the workshop with a worksheet with prompts on how to adapt current educational offerings at their institutions to align with anti-racist objectives.