Racism, Microaggressions, and Allyship in Health Care: A Narrative Approach to Learning (Improver)

• Offers case narratives on the complexity of dealing with racism, discrimination, and bias as a healthcare professional
• Provides trainee and facilitator resources with detailed support and guidance even for inexperienced educators
• Is a practical and useful tool authored by medical professionals that can be adaptable to multiple settings and learners

This book provides a complete teaching companion that an organization can use to educate on the hard topics of racism, antiracism, microaggressions, bias and allyships. It explores the experience of underrepresented minority trainees and other healthcare professionals with racism and allyship.

Talking about racism is challenging due to the amount of associated pain, suffering and strong emotions. Creating a respectful, open, interactive and safe place to have conversations, teach and learn is paramount in order to produce change in the healthcare environment. Using narratives to facilitate difficult conversations is familiar to healthcare professionals, and with humility reminds us that we are all "patients" that also need healing. Narr