The Wayne State University School of Medicine Office of Faculty Affairs & Professional Development welcomes all members of our community to join us for a special four-part workshop series on Implicit Bias:

Implicit Bias Series webinar:

"Stereotypes and Women in Medicine: How Do We Overcome Them?"

**This session meets the state mandate for implicit bias training and includes one hour of training.**

When stereotypes regarding the characteristics and social groups of individuals are made salient, it can negatively affect individual performance; and when that happens the team suffers. By empowering individuals in our team regarding what they may feel are negative stereotypes - consciously or unconsciously -, we can empower them to overcome negativity and bring greater productivity to the team. In turn, our teammates become more successful, as well.

In the third session of this 4-part workshop series ,participants will learn about stereotypes and stereotype threat, which is the fear of confirming in oneself a negative stereotype due to performance on difficult or self-evaluative tasks. Implementing anti-stereotype threat initiatives within the team and individually can reduce or even eliminate the negative effects. Learn how through discussion and breakout sessions.

Learning objectives: 

1. Attendees will understand what stereotypes and stereotype threat are, as well as their relationship to implicit bias, and be able to name 3 that specifically affect women in medicine.
2. Attendees will learn how stereotypes and stereotype threat affect women, especially in medicine.
3. Attendees will gain the tools to fight the negative effects of stereotypes and stereotype threat in their lives and the lives of others.

When: Monday, February 21, 2022

Time: 12 p.m. - 1 p.m. 

Moderators:

Basim Dubaybo, M.D.
Vice Dean

Beena G. Sood, M.D., M.S. 
Professor of Pediatrics

Guest Speaker:

Kimberly Morgan, Ed.D, Dr. Kimberly Morgan is a higher education leader with more than 18 years’ experience in problem-solving, advising, managerial and supervisory roles, and mathematics teaching.

Along with her work as an advisor in the Mathematics Department at Wayne State, she has chaired many Wayne State committees, including the President’s Commission on the Status of Women, Wayne Women LEAD (Wayne State’s Chapter of the MI-ACE Women’s Network), the Gender Equity Working Group, the Pay Gap Committee and its Pay Gap Analysis Committee, and multiple Math Department and university-wide committees. She was also on the General Education Oversight Committee, the Campus Safety Council and many more.

She was the 2019 recipient of the Wayne Sate Woman of Distinction Employee Award for her work regarding women’s issues. She was also an Academic Leadership Academy Fellow for the 2019-20 academic year.

Previously she was the Math Coordinator for the APEX Scholars Program at Wayne State where she oversaw a tutoring lab and a basic mathematics course. She has also been a middle school teacher and a faculty member at Rochester University.

She has a Master’s in Applied Mathematics as well as a doctorate in Educational Leadership, both obtained at Wayne State. She also has a Master’s in Education with Secondary Teaching Certification from the University of Toledo and a Bachelor’s of Mathematics from Oklahoma Christian University.

Target Audience: Wayne State University School of Medicine faculty, staff, medical students, fellow and residents

 The Wayne State University School of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

The Wayne State University School of Medicine designates this live activity for a maximum of 1 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit (s) TM. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Disclosure of Conflicts of Interest: This program is not related to specific diseases or conditions but rather deal exclusively with medical education. Therefore there are no potential conflicts of interest with ineligible companies as defined by ACCME and there is no need to identify, disclose or mitigate commercial conflicts of interest.