Racial, Gender, and Sexual Orientation Microaggressions Experienced in Healthcare and Strategies to Overcome-View Presentation

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The session, led by Saul Evans, CEO and Medical Director of APA, focuses on addressing racial, gender, and sexual orientation microaggressions in healthcare, emphasizing strategies to mitigate their impact. The discussion underlines the pervasive nature of systemic biases and the significant psychosocial barriers they create for minority groups, affecting access to care and contributing to disparities in healthcare quality. Microaggressions, often subtle yet damaging, erode patient-provider trust, complicate communication, and foster environments conducive to stress and burnout for minoritized healthcare providers.<br /><br />Speakers including Dr. Ravi Chandra, Dr. Fee Fonseca, and Dr. Dhruv Gupta present comprehensive insights into these issues. They highlight the importance of recognizing and tackling unconscious biases, fostering cultural humility, and understanding intersectionality. They articulate the profound mental and physical health consequences of microaggressions, linking these to stress-induced physiological responses and adverse behaviors.<br /><br />Strategies for addressing microaggressions span individual and organizational levels. They propose education, reflection, and process as key strategies at an individual level, while emphasizing the role of education and awareness at an organizational level. Development of supportive networks, implementation of zero-tolerance policies, and continuous assessment through metrics are suggested as ways to drive change.<br /><br />Personal anecdotes about navigating microaggressions illustrate the real-world complexities these issues present within the power dynamics of healthcare settings. The session encourages fostering belonging and allyship while advocating for continuous learning and systemic changes to create inclusive, equitable healthcare environments.

Keywords

microaggressions

healthcare

racial biases

gender biases

sexual orientation

systemic biases

cultural humility

intersectionality

allyship

inclusive environments

zero-tolerance policies