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At The Bedside

Read the HPI and think about the questions on the title slide before watching the video. Put yourself at the bedside of this patient and form your own diagnostic and management plan. Designed to help you actually rehearse what you’re going to say and do at the bedside of a sick patient, keep tuning in each week for the same format but new and high yield Emergency Medicine pearls…

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At the Bedside

Read the HPI and think about the questions on the title slide before watching the video. Put yourself at the bedside of this patient and form your own diagnostic and management plan. Designed to help you actually rehearse what you’re going to say and do at the bedside of a sick patient, keep tuning in each week for the same format but new and high yield Emergency Medicine pearls…

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At The Bedside

Read the HPI and think about the questions on the title slide before watching the video. Put yourself at the bedside of this patient and form your own diagnostic and management plan. Designed to help you actually rehearse what you’re going to say and do at the bedside of a sick patient, keep tuning in each week for the same format but new and high yield Emergency Medicine pearls…

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At The Bedside

Read the HPI and think about the questions on the title slide before watching the video. Put yourself at the bedside of this patient and form your own diagnostic and management plan. Designed to help you actually rehearse what you’re going to say and do at the bedside of a sick patient, keep tuning in each week for the same format but new and high yield Emergency Medicine pearls…

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How to Check Your Implicit Bias At The Door

Implicit bias is defined as the unconscious “attitudes or stereotypes that affect our understanding, actions, and decisions”. [1] It occurs without conscious awareness, is not readily apparent to oneself, and may be at odds with one’s stated beliefs. The Implicit Association Test (IAT) is one of the gold standards in measuring implicit bias. Tests of implicit bias can be taken for free through Project Implicit, a nonprofit organization and research group. [2] Overall, more than 70% of people who have taken the race attitude IAT have shown implicit preference for white Americans. One study found that physicians are no different: of more than 400,000 medical doctors that took the race attitude IAT, there was an overwhelming implicit preference for white Americans relative to Black Americans. [3] Women physicians were shown to have less implicit bias than men physicians, but only Black physicians showed no implicit race preference…

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