MedStar Health – Georgetown University Graduate Medical Education is committed to an equitable recruiting process for our incoming residents and fellows. This toolkit prepared by the Working Group for Racial Justice provides resources and strategies for Program Directors to ensure diversity, equity, and inclusion during recruitment.

Bias and Residency Recruitment

Presentation by Megha Shah Fitzpatrick, MD
Vice Chair of Pediatrics, Education
Faculty Co-chair, WGRJ

• Holistic Review, Mitigating Bias, and Other Strategies in Residency Recruitment for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion: An Evidence-based Guide to Best Practices from the Council of Residency Directors in Emergency Medicine
• Navigating Bias on Interview Day: Strategies for Charting an Inclusive and Equitable Course
• Addressing implicit bias in the surgical residency application and interview process for underrepresented minorities
• Improving Diversity in Pediatric Residency Selection: Using an Equity Framework to Implement Holistic Review
• Reimagining Merit and Representation: Promoting Equity and Reducing Bias in GME Through Holistic Review

Program Directors can encourage faculty and staff engaged in the recruitment process to complete the Implicit Association Test (IAT). The IAT measures attitudes and beliefs that people may be unwilling or unable to report. The IAT may be especially interesting if it shows that you have an implicit attitude that you did not know about. The more aware of our implicit biases, the more readily we can address them.

• AAMC Unconscious Bias Resources for Health Professionals
• Viewpoint: “Rooting out implicit bias in admissions”