To understand how attitudes differ and correlate among healthcare professionals, the current study will examine implicit and explicit attitudes about race and anti-bias training at academic medical campuses. It is also important to understand how attitudes toward race and sociodemographic variables including stage of professional development, exposure to implicit bias instruction, and age may predict attitudes about anti-bias training.
We are seeking participants from academic medical campuses who are one of the following:
If you choose to take part in the study, it is completely voluntary, and all responses will be kept confidential. You may choose to withdraw from the study at any time, without consequences, using the Remove My Data form. To remove your data, please be sure you remember your unique study id (created in the demographics). Without the study id, our team will be unable to locate your data as this study does not collect any identifying data.
There is no known risk to you by participating in this online survey. By choosing to take part in this survey, it will contribute to the field of knowledge on implicit social cognition within the paradigm of social psychology, and it will supply a real-time picture of healthcare professionals’ attitudes across academic medical campuses, helping us to gain valuable insights at individual, community, and institutional levels of medical education. Potentially, these insights will inform the development of evidence-based tailored education programs, targeted interventions, and help to shape policies. Also, by choosing to be a part of this survey, it may raise awareness about any personal bias, potentially inspiring further understanding.
This study is being reviewed (and soon will be approved) by the Committee on the Use of Human Subjects (CUHS), Harvard's Institutional Review Board (IRB) at Harvard University, ensuring that it meets all the ethical standards and regulatory requirements for research involving human participants.
A waiver of consent to participate in this study has been approved by the CUHS IRB at Harvard University.
If you have any questions or would like to learn more before participating, please contact:
Laura Melendez
Graduate Student & Lead Researcher
Department of Psychology
Harvard University Division of Continuing Education
Email: lam234@g.harvard.edu
The Committee on the Use of Human Subjects (CUHS), Harvard University Institutional Review Board:
1350 Massachusetts Avenue, Smith Campus Center, Suite 645, Cambridge, MA 02138
Phone: (617) 496-2847
Email: cuhs@harvard.edu
If you have reviewed the information above, and would like to start the study, please click the button below to begin the eligibility screener.