Ensuring Fairness in Medical Education Assessment

This study takes a first step in centering the margins as we as medical educators grow our understanding of the dynamics of promoting fairness in assessment. Future studies should explore feedback with intentional inclusion and involvement of diverse students, teachers, and researchers at every stage of the research process from conceptualization through dissemination and application of the new learning. We thank our participants for their time and candor discussing this sensitive topic and the Group on Educational Affairs for funding our work. Thank you for your time and attention and the focus that you’ll put on this topic in the future. [37:45] Dowin Boatwright: Hello, everyone. I’m Dowin Boatwright. I’m an associate professor for emergency medicine and population health at the NYU Grossman School of Medicine and vice chair of research in the Department of Emergency Medicine. I also serve on the planning committee for the Macy Foundation conference on ensuring fairness in medical education assessment. As a planning committee member, I work with the foundation staff to help design, implement, and now engage in follow-up activities for the conference. I can tell you that a lot of thoughtful work went into the recommendations and action steps that Holly spoke about earlier. As she mentioned, those recommendations grew out of our discussions of the commissioned papers and the case studies that some of the authors have just summarized. As you can imag...
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