Using an Adaptive Listening Tour and Survey to Promote Faculty Reflection on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) in the Pre-clinical Undergraduate Medical Curriculum

Nada Fadul; Ryan Boyland; Kari L Nelson; Teresa L Hartman; Peter Oldenburg; Justin L Mott; Shirley Delair

doi:10.1007/s40670-023-01924-7

Using an Adaptive Listening Tour and Survey to Promote Faculty Reflection on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) in the Pre-clinical Undergraduate Medical Curriculum

Med Sci Educ. 2023 Oct 31;34(1):37-41. doi: 10.1007/s40670-023-01924-7. eCollection 2024 Feb.

Authors

Nada Fadul¹, Ryan Boyland², Kari L Nelson^{2

3}, Teresa L Hartman⁴, Peter Oldenburg², Justin L Mott², Shirley Delair⁵

Affiliations

¹ Department of Internal Medicine, University of Nebraska Medical Center College of Medicine, Omaha, NE USA.
² University of Nebraska Medical Center College of Medicine, Omaha, NE USA.
³ Department of Family Medicine, University of Nebraska Medical Center College of Medicine, 9885524 Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE 68198-5524 USA.
⁴ McGoogan Health Sciences Library, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE USA.
⁵ Department of Pediatrics, University of Nebraska Medical Center College of Medicine, Omaha, NE USA.

PMID: 38510402
PMCID: PMC10948660 (available on 2025-02-01)
DOI: 10.1007/s40670-023-01924-7

Abstract

Descriptive studies regarding how to integrate diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) into medical education are lacking. We utilized the AAMC's Key Steps for Assessing Institutional Culture and Climate framework to evaluate our current curriculum via listening tours (n = 34 participants) and a survey of the 10 pre-clinical block directors, to better understand the opportunities and challenges of improving DEI in the pre-clinical curriculum. Opportunities included diversifying cases and standardized patients, enhancing information on systemic racism and social determinants of health, and increasing racial humility and population genetics/epigenetics training. Faculty had issues with "correct ways" to incorporate DEI and time constraints.

Supplementary information: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s40670-023-01924-7.

Keywords: Curriculum; Diversity, equity, and inclusion; Listening tour; Undergraduate medical education.