Resource Highlight: Free Antiracism Module

Funding from the Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation has made it possible for PAEA members to incorporate a new, free online module into their curriculums. “Antiracism in Healthcare” contains 17 sections covering a wide range of antiracism topics, 30 exercises, 46 videos, pre and post-tests, eight faculty and student curriculum guides, and three asynchronous faculty development workshops with narration.

Although the module is publicly available, PAEA is offering an introductory video in which one of the creators, Barbara Lewis, MBA, breaks down how to use the module in your classroom. Access the video and other related resources here.

Antiracism in Healthcare’s goal is to promote equity, diversity, and inclusion in healthcare education by guiding students to think about and execute ways to engage holistically with their patients/clients as full, authentic beings. By examining historical, social, economic, and political forces that shape medicine and human health, this module offers ways in which to re conceptualize healthcare through a social justice framework. 

When you have completed this module and associated workshops, you will be able to: 

• explain how structural, cultural, and individual racism have shaped our common history and have led to vast societal disparities in education, policing, wealth and healthcare;  
• commit to being antiracist in your attitudes and behaviors;  
• contribute to creating an antiracist learning culture for healthcare trainees that honors diversity, equity and inclusion: where all trainees are respected, where faculty model respect and empathy for all patients, colleagues and staff, and where trainees feel empowered to contribute to a culture of mutual learning;  
• provide examples of how your increased self-awareness and reflection have helped you recognize your individual and cultural biases and how you use this awareness to seek to understand and empathize with your patients and clients of color, and to deliver equitable care to all;  
• have the moral courage to act as an ally and upstander for your minoritized colleagues and patients;  
• use your understanding of structural, cultural and individual biases to advocate for positive changes in your institutions and communities that will lead to equitable care for all.