Accepted Type
Oral
Code
OD1-1-1
Acceptance Declaration
Accept
Additional Information
I declare I have no actual or potential conflict of interest in relation to this program.
Was this work accepted for CCME 2020?
no
Category
General Call (Workshop, Oral Presentation, Poster Presentation)
Type
Oral
Sub Type
Education Research
Will the presenter be a:
Other
Presenter Other
Scientist/Researcher
Affiliation
Considered for Poster
yes
Title
Beyond "mini-me" and #MeToo?: An environmental scan of physician leadership programs that include concepts of diversity, gender and race.
Length of Presentation
Background/Purpose
Current literature indicates that there is a lack of training for physicians in relation to equity, diversity and inclusion (EDI).This can impede physicians' ability to lead a diverse workforce, representing a barrier for certain groups to obtain positions of power within medicine. To explore this gap, we conducted an environmental scan to understand current trends in physician leadership training with regard to EDI.
Methods
We used a three-pronged approach to provide a nuanced portrayal of current training initiatives; scanning medical education conferences, physician leadership programs and peer reviewed literature. Working with a librarian, we searched grey literature from 2015 to 2020 and peer reviewed literature from 2013 to August 2020. Reviewers extracted relevant data independently using standardized abstraction sheets, before interpreting findings as a group.
Results
Although integrating EDI concepts into leadership programs could hold great promise for redressing health inequalities, our findings indicate that EDI content was generally absent from programming A relatively low number of sources featured EDI programming, with only 20 of 3877 studies screened meeting this criteria. A closer narrative examination of specific physician leadership programming is provided.
Conclusion
The apparent lack of EDI content in physician leadership training is troubling, given the trend towards rapid racial/ethnic diversification in North America. The findings provide CME/CPD educators an opportunity to make more strategic decisions regarding the content of physician leadership training given the identified gaps. We present these considerations along with implications for the wider literature, practical applications for CME/CPD initiatives, and the methodological limitations/challenges encountered during this work.
Keyword 1
Diversity
Keyword 2
Leadership
Keyword 3
CPD
Level of Training
CPD (faculty development, CME)
Abstract Themes
Leadership
Additional Theme (First choice)
Continuing Medical Education
Additional Theme (Second Choice)
Faculty Development
Additional Theme (Third Choice)
Authors
Presenter
Sophie Soklaridis
Term 1
Yes
Term 2
Yes
Term 3
Yes
Term 4
Yes
Term 5
Yes
