Resources
Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry
- Navigating Crisis in Graduate Studies: An interactive PDF resource guide created by the Schulich Medicine & Dentistry CR(EDI)T Team
- Scholarships, Fellowships, Awards Resources: Here is an extensive working document for scholarships, fellowships, and awards available for students in Canada at the institutional, provincial, and national level. This document includes Definition of Terms (such as First Generation and BIPOC), Scholarships & Awards, and other searchable scholarship, fellowship and award databases. All resources are categorized based on level (undergraduate, graduate, postdoctoral) and group: Needs-based, Black Canadians, Indigenous, BIPOC, LGBTQ2S+, First Generation, Persons with Disabilities, and Women in Science.
- Office of Equity, Diversity, Inclusion and Decolonization at Schuilch School of Medicine & Dentistry
Anti Racism & Gender in Academia
Provided by the 2020 Schulich Anti-Racism Retreat
- The elephant in the room: talking race in medical education: An article by two Canadian physicians discussing how we treat the concept of race in medical education.
- Teaching Diversity: The Science You Need to Know to Explain Why Race Is Not Biological: Written for educators to help teach race as a social construct through a scientific lens, using primary literature.
- The Kidneys in Black and White: Inheriting Medical Racism: An article by a medical student from the University of Washington outlining the genealogy of racism in medical thinking.
- Myths about Physical Racial Differences were Used to Justify Slavery - and Are Still Believed by Doctors Today: An overview of historical medical experiments and unproven biological “truths” the medical community used to justify slavery.
- When Black medical students weren’t welcome at Queen’s: An article about when Queen’s banned Black medical students in order to improve their reputation.
- London, Ontario Was a Racist Asshole to Me: A Western alumnus’ experiences with racism at Western University and in London. Extremely relevant for local context; this is what Schulich students experience.
- The White Space: Characterizes the experience of Black people navigating predominantly white spaces with personal, narrative examples by a Black author.
- White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack: Dr. Peggy McIntosh’s essay on white privilege, using examples from her own experiences.
- The Performance if “Antiracism” Curricula: Kevin J. Gutierrez, M.D. discusses how until antiracism is seen as a continual practice of (un)learning we will not achieve the desired outcome of change.
- “How Racism Creeps into Medicine”: Hamza Shaban provides an example of eugenics in speaking with the author Lundy Braun of Breathing Race into the Machine as they briefly discuss the science of racial difference, its history, and its resurgence.
- Does STEM Stand Out? Examining Racial/Ethnic Gaps in Persistence Across Postsecondary Fields: Riegle-Crumb, King, & Irizarry (2019) conduct a national study showing that Black and Latina/o youth who begin college as STEM majors are more likely to depart than their White peers.
- How Gender and Race Stereotypes Impact the Advancement of Scholars in STEM: Professors’ Biased Evaluations of Physics and Biology Post-Doctoral Candidates: Eaton et al. (2019) conducts a study showing that the perceived race and gender of a postdoctoral applicant’s name affects how an otherwise-identical CV is judged.
- Building an Inclusive AAS - The Critical Role of Diversity and Inclusion Training for AAS Council and Astronomy Leadership: Brinkworth et al. (2015) writes a paper laying out the case for diversity and inclusion training in professional societies; written for astronomy but much of the content is applicable to other fields.
- Ivey’s Commitment to Equity, Diversity and Inclusion: Ivey’s actions towards EDI within the business/academic community may be a great starting point for idea.
- Disruption of all Forms of Racism – Rady Faculty of Health Sciences
- The University of British Columbia – Activating Inclusion Toolkit
- Can We Decolonize and Indigenize Our Medical Schools?
- Systemic Inequalities for LGBTQ Professionals in STEM
Dr. Bauer
- Incorporating intersectionality theory into population health research methodology: Challenges and the potential to advance health equity Identifying visible minorities or racialized persons on surveys: can we just ask?
Dr. Sukhera
- Structural distress: experiences of moral distress related to structural stigma during the COVID-19 pandemic A Framework for Integrating Implicit Bias Recognition Into Health Professions Education
Best Practices for Drafting an EDI Action Plan for your Clinic or Lab
Content provided by Dr. Nicole Kaniki
