DEI Teaching

Teaching Resources


August 25, 2019

Race Matters? Examining and Rethinking Race Portrayal in Pre-clinical Medical Education

This article addresses a pervasive and important challenge in health sciences education–how and why do we present a patient’s race when we know race is a social construct? Tsai J, Ucik L, Baldwin N, Hasslinger C, George P. Race Matters? Examining and Rethinking Race Portrayal in Preclinical Medical Education. Acad Med. 2016;91(7):916-920. doi: 10.1097/ACM.0000000000001232


Society of Teachers of Family Medicine’s Resource Library

The STFM’s Resource Library provides different activities in multiple formats and on various topics (hint: enter key terms such as ‘racism’ or ‘LGBTQ’ in the search field in the top right of the page and refine from there)


American Academy of Family Physicians LGBTQ Curriculum Guidelines for Family Medicine Residents

Check out AAFP’s LGBTQ curriculum guidelines here.


August 23, 2019

Preparing Today’s Nurses: Social Determinants of Health and Nursing Education

Read the online article here.


Addressing Social Determinants of Health in Nursing Education, Research, & Policy

Mahony D, Jones EJ. Social determinants of health in nursing education, research, and health policy. Nursing science quarterly. 2013;26(3):280-284.


August 16, 2019

Integrating Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion Into a Research Course

See this recent publication on ways to integrate DEI into a research methods course: O’Connor R.(2019). Integrating Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Topics Into an Undergraduate Nursing Research Course. J Nurs Educ. 58(8) 494. doi: 10.3928/01484834-20190719-13.


Guide to Discussing Identity, Power, and Privilege

From the University of Southern California, this guide includes activities to use in class with students.


Teaching Tolerance

Teaching Tolerance is a project of the Southern Poverty Law Center and provides a wealth of resources related to teaching social justice and anti-bias, including lesson plans and opportunities for professional development online and in person. The site is geared towards K-12, but many of the resources are applicable to higher education as well.


August 5, 2019

Helping Students Explore Their Privileged Identities

See the Association of American Colleges and Universities ‘Helping Students Explore Their Privileged Identities’ here


Managing Hot Moments in the Classroom

Click here for a brief framework to manage ‘Hot Moments in the Classroom’