Addressing Physician Racial Biases Provide Equitable Care, with Uché Blackstock, MD

Dr. Uché Blackstock is an emergency medicine physician who is passionate about addressing the detrimental effects of structural racism on health outcomes. We discuss the origins of structural racism and how this continues to influence the health outcomes of minorities. She then gives us some tools for reflecting on our own biases and how we can work to address them. In addition to patient care, we talk about improving the diversity of faculty, and the importance of mentorship and sponsorship. We end by discussing something each of us can start doing tomorrow in order to address our own biases.

Dr. Blackstock went to Harvard for both undergrad and medical school, did her emergency medicine residency at SUNY Downstate/ King’s County Hospital Center and then a fellowship in ultrasound at St. Luke’s Roosevelt.  She is now associate professor at NYU as well as the faculty director of recruitment, retention and inclusion at the office of diversity affairs at the medical school.  She recently started her company Advancing Health Equity, which aims to partner with healthcare organizations to address some of the critical factors that contribute to health inequity, through educational trainings and racial equity culture analytics.  She can be found at advancinghealthequity.com and on Twitter @dr_uche_bee.

The implicit bias test that she discussed can be found here: https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/takeatest.html

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This medical podcast with a physician mentor explores how structural racism shapes health outcomes and why busy doctors and overwhelmed physicians must reflect on their own biases to provide equitable care. We discuss physician lessons on recognizing bias, improving patient encounters, and using physician soft skills to communicate with patients respectfully. Listeners will learn practical steps for addressing physician stress tied to bias, improving medical decisions, and fostering diversity through mentorship and sponsorship. This episode gives good physicians, female physicians, physician parents, and physician executives actionable tools to avoid doctor regret, become inspiring physicians, and move toward physician financial independence by aligning their doctor career with equitable patient care.

This medical podcast is your physician mentor to fill the gaps in your medical education. We cover physician soft skills, charting, interpersonal skills, doctor finance, doctor mental health, medical decisions, physician parenting, physician executive skills, navigating your doctor career, and medical professional development. This is critical CME for physicians, but without the credits (yet). A proud founding member of the Doctor Podcast Network!

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