Chloé Nathalie Sarah Fitzgerald

TL;DR: The evidence indicates that healthcare professionals exhibit the same levels of implicit bias as the wider population, and the need for the healthcare profession to address the role of implicit biases in disparities in healthcare is highlighted.

TL;DR: Caution is advised when it comes to programs aiming at reducing biases, as robust data is lacking for many of these interventions, and some techniques, such as exposure to counterstereotypical exemplars, are more promising.

TL;DR: On my revised conception of conscience, heeding social feedback, being emotionally self-aware and engaging in self-monitoring are important for the possession of a well-functioning conscience.

TL;DR: In this paper , the authors examined how specializing in psychiatry/general medicine and years of experience moderated implicit obesity and mental illness prejudice among Swiss physicians and found that more experienced physicians displayed warmer explicit feelings towards the mentally ill and a greater level of concern for the fictional patients in the vignette than the less experienced, except when the patient was described as obese.

TL;DR: In this paper , the authors examined how specializing in psychiatry/general medicine and years of experience moderated implicit obesity and mental illness prejudice among Swiss physicians and found that more experienced physicians displayed warmer explicit feelings towards the mentally ill and a greater level of concern for the fictional patients in the vignette than the less experienced, except when the patient was described as obese.