Last year, the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) started the Clinician Educator Journal Club to help clinical educators grow. Each month, they invite authors to discuss their article and how it can be used to improve an educator’s knowledge, skills, or abilities as they relate to the Clinician Educator Milestones, a framework for assessing clinical educator skills.
The Clinician Educator Journal Club invited four members of the department to speak on their article, “Recognizing and Mitigating Gender Bias in Medical Teaching Assessments,” as it relates to the Recognition and Mitigation of Bias subcompetency of the Clinician Educator Milestones. The invited authors who spoke at the May journal club event included Jessica Babal, MD, associate professor and education lead, Division of General Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, and interim division co-chief of the Division of Child Protection; Kirstin Nackers, MD, associate professor, Division of Hospital Medicine and Complex Care and director of undergraduate medical education for the Department of Pediatrics; Ann Allen, MD, associate professor and fellowship director, Division of Hospital Medicine and Complex Care; and Britt Allen, MD, associate professor, Division of General Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine. More than 100 participants from across the country attended the session, extending the national reach of the article’s impact.
Article co-authors included Carrie Nacht, MPH, a PhD candidate in public health at UCSD/SDSU, and three members of the Division of Hospital Medicine and Complex Care: Sarah Webber, MD, associate professor and director of well-being for the department; Kristin Tiedt, MD, associate professor; and Michelle Kelly, MD, PhD, professor. The authors developed this article as part of their broader body of work exploring gender bias in clinical teaching assessments.