GI Unit Leadership: EQuIP Your Team for Success (On-demand) | February 2024-Increasing the Diversity and Cultural Competency of Your Team

Increasing the Diversity and Cultural Competency of Your Team

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Video Summary

The speaker discusses the importance of increasing diversity and cultural competence within medical teams, with a focus on defining diversity, equity, inclusion, and cultural competence. They highlight the disparities in diversity within healthcare, particularly in gastroenterology, and stress the positive impact of diversity on patient outcomes. Additionally, they address challenges faced by underrepresented minorities and gender disparities in the field. The talk emphasizes the need for implicit bias training, cultural competency interventions, and increased representation of diverse groups in healthcare to address disparities and provide better care for all patients.

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Tsion Abdi, MD MPH

Keywords

diversity

cultural competence

medical teams

healthcare disparities

implicit bias training