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ForwardCreating FOREM: Anti-Racism Curriculum to Mitigate Bias Amongst Trainees
During this one-year curriculum, a multi-disciplinary team of content experts will present large group quarterly lectures followed by small group sessions guided by trained faculty and resident facilitators.
The learner must participate in all sessions to receive CME credit. For each session, xxxxx. Credit will be awarded upon completion of the final session.
The goals for residents, fellows, and faculty who receive the FOREM longitudinal curriculum are to (1) comprehend the history of systemic racism and its impact on medical practice, patient care, and healthcare delivery; (2) develop strategies to address racism and mitigate its effects upon provider implicit bias; and (3) practice tools needed to promote health equity, become allies, and advocate for patients. Achieving these goals will allow recipients of the curriculum to practice more racially equitable medicine to improve health disparities of underserved populations.
By the end of this course, participants will be able to:
1. Explain the history of race as a social construct.
2. Describe examples of historical oppression, systemic racism, and structural influences on healthcare access and delivery.
3. Define the impact of racism on social determinants of health and explore methodologies to overcome racial health disparities as providers
4. Elucidate the effects of racism on the demographics of the physician workforce and work environment and how this affects patient care.
5. Apply anti-bias practices in clinical encounters that recognize and repair inequities in health and health care and advocate for building a more diverse physician workforce.
6. Utilize anti-racist (ally/advocate) practices with colleagues, faculty, or staff who they work with
Principal Investigator/ Primary Contact:
Rickquel Tripp, MD, MPH
Vice Chair Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion of University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) Graduate Medical Education (GME)
Vice Chair Diversity, Inclusion, & Health Equity of Department of Emergency Medicine
Clinical Assistant Professor, Emergency Medicine
EMS Medical Director
tripprp@upmc.edu
412-260-1821
Co-Principal Investigator:
Orquidia Torres, MD, MS
Assistant Professor
Program Director, Adolescent Medicine Fellowship
Director of Medical Student and Resident Education, Adolescent Medicine
University of Pittsburgh, Department of Pediatrics
torresoa2@upmc.edu
Co-investigators:
Thuy Bui, MD,
Associate Professor of Medicine
University of Pittsburgh, Department of Medicine
Buit@upmc.edu
Piper Carroll, MD
Fellow
University of Pittsburgh, Department of Psychiatry
carrollpn@upmc.edu
Alaina James, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor
University of Pittsburgh, Department of Dermatology
jamesaj@upmc.edu
Anna Donovan, MD, MS
Associate Program Director for Inpatient Medicine,
UPMC, IM Residency Training Program
Beth Hoffman, PhD, MPH
Postdoctoral Fellow
University of Pittsburgh School of Public Health
Beth.hoffman@pitt.edu
Contributors:
Eloho Ufomata, MD
Assistant Professor
University of Pittsburgh, Department of Medicine
ufomataeo@upmc.edu
Loreta Matheo, MD
Vice Chair for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC
Associate Program Director, Adolescent Medicine Fellowship
Clinical Associate Professor, Division of Adolescent and Young Adult Medicine
Director, Transition Services Program, Center for Adolescent and Young Adult Health
CCP Adolescent and Young Adult Physician Liaison
loreta.matheo@chp.edu
Betty Liu, MD
Associate Professor
Co-Director, PM&R Medical Student Education
Director, Alumni Relations
Department Wellness Champion
Pronouns: she/her/hers
liuby@upmc.edu
Sarahgene Gillianne Defoe, MD
Clinical Assistant Professor
Radiation Oncology
defoesg@upmc.edu