A Shadow of Doubt: Is There Implicit Bias Among Orthopaedic Surgery Faculty and Residents Regarding Race and Gender?

CONCLUSION: Orthopaedic surgeons demonstrated slight preferences for White people, and there was a tendency to associate women with career and family on IATs, regardless of demographic and program characteristics, similar to others in healthcare and the general population. Given the similarity of scores with those in other, more diverse areas of medicine, unconscious biases alone do not explain the relative lack of diversity in orthopaedic surgery.CLINICAL RELEVANCE: Implicit biases only explain a small portion of the lack of progress in improving diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging in our workforce and resolving healthcare disparities. Other causes including explicit biases, an unwelcoming culture, and perceptions of our specialty should be examined. Remedies including engagement of students and mentorship throughout training and early career should be sought.PMID:38214651 | DOI:10.1097/CORR.0000000000002933

Source: Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research - January 12, 2024 Category: Orthopaedics Authors: Shawn R Gilbert Timothy Torrez Achraf H Jardaly Kimberly J Templeton Gabriella E Ode Kelsie Coe Joshua C Patt Mara L Schenker Gerald McGwin Brent A Ponce Collaborative Orthopaedic Educational Research Group Source Type: research