Table 1 (Abstract O3) Themes and illustrating quotes
From: Meeting Abstracts for the Society for Simulation in Europe 2023
Theme | Quotation |
|---|---|
Validating experience | Participant 1: “As a future BAME doctor myself, it was validating for [Implicit Bias comment] to be flagged up (in the debrief) as explicitly inappropriate rather than brushed under a carpet” |
SBE facilitating a transformative learning experience | Participant 1: “It definitely challenged me to think a bit more deeply about the impact of the things we say about patients... I find myself also guilty of doing this from time to time, making jokes at the patients’ expense, when they’re not there” Participant 2: “I’ve got this kind of idea of the way I’d like to treat people but I don’t, um, I don’t live up to that it turns out. So that’s useful to identify” |
Professional expectations of doctors to treat all patients fairly | Participant 2: “You hope that, you know being a doctor and looking after someone, you gain their full respect, but there are still some biases that really get in the way of that” Participant 2: “I’d like to think that I’m the kind of person who wouldn’t treat someone differently, if they were an alcoholic, or drug user, or whatever” Participant 3: “It’s kind of unexpected for... a registrar to have these sort of like prejudices... maybe not unexpected, but it shouldn’t be coming from them... It’s unprofessional.” |
Challenges of confronting and dealing with microaggressions as a medical student | Participant 1 “But I guess that kind of shows that this is how I've always, you know, dealt with these sorts of incidents. Whether it's big or small, whether it's just a passing comment or whether it's a full-on confrontation…There's no code of conduct. Participant 4: “I do find it hard as a medical student because you’re very much like the bottom of the pile like you just feel it’s not your place to kind of, say anything or there’s someone else that should be saying something... I never want to like step on anyone’s toes... I feel there’s like quite a hierarchy and we often just have to like stay quietly in the corner and do what we’re told” |