The Upstate Bias Checklist: A Checklist for Assessing Bias in Health Professions Education

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This checklist is intended to promote reflection regarding how race, gender, and other indicators (including social determinants of health, such as poverty) are represented in health professions education.

The checklist was designed to be used by individuals, teams, or other parties to review educational content, such as a lecture, standardized patient encounter, small group session, or written examination.

"Content" may include slides, lecture notes, handouts, assigned readings, examination questions, problem-based learning cases, or anything said by the presenter during the learning encounter.

Checklist users should decide what they are assessing prior to using the checklist. Several contexts for bias are included in the checklist (listed below). Users may review all or a portion of these. If reviewing only a portion of these contexts, please proceed through the checklist to the page(s) of interest after completing the initial demographic questions.

Race and Ethnicity (page 5)
Visual Images (page 6)
Clinical Vignettes (page 7)
Sex and Gender (page 8)
Sexuality, Sexual Behavior and Sexual Orientation (page 9)
Disability (page 10)
Mental Health and Substance Abuse (page 11)
Weight (page 12)
Immigration Status, Nationality, Language and Culture (page 13)
Poverty and Socioeconomic Status (page 14)
Age (page 15)
Religion and Faith Tradition (page 16)
Prisoners (page 17)
Rural Residence (page 18)
Interprofessional Communication (page 19)

The full checklist provides a thorough review. Depending on the type of content, the checklist can take up to an hour or more to complete. Once complete, users can save a PDF copy of their assesment.

We recommend reaching out to curriculum or teaching experts within your college. For additional assistance, please contact facdev@unmc.edu or inclusion@unmc.edu.

If unable to complete the checklist in one sitting, users can save and continue at a later time. To do so, users will need both the survey link and a unique return code.

Please click here for additional information and Frequently Asked Questions. If you encounter an unfamiliar term, please check the glossary here.

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