Skin Tone and Gender of High-Fidelity Simulation Manikins in Emergency Medicine Residency Training and Their Use in Cultural Humility Training

Introduction: It is important for physicians to learn how to provide culturally sensitive care. Cultural humility is de fined as a lifelong process with a goal of fixing power imbalances and creating institutional accountability through learning about another’s culture as well as performing self-exploration about one’s own beliefs, identities, and biases. One way to teach cultural humility in medicine is simula tion. However, there are no peer-reviewed published studies that examine whether the skin tone or gender of the high-fidelity simulation manikins (HFSM) used by emergency medicine (EM) residency programs reflects the US population nor whether high-fidelity simulation is used to teach cultural hum ility. We aimed to address that gap in the literature. Our primary objective was to evaluate what proportion of EM residency programs use HFS to teach cultural humility. Our secondary objective was to evaluate whether the skin tone and gender breakdown of the EM residency...

Source: Western Journal of Emergency Medicine - July 12, 2023 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Brown, Cortlyn Source Type: research