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Hi, everyone, and welcome back, clinical problem solvers.

Hi, everyone.

This is Lindsay Shipley.

This WDX episode is with our guest, Dr. Williams, and Tider.

This episode was inspired by a grand round talk they gave to the UAB Department of Medicine

on how to best support our trainees by

addressing micro and macroaggressions in the clinical setting. It was an incredible discussion,

resonated with many of our trainees, and provided so much helpful advice. And because of this,

I'm so excited to share with you today some of what we learned. And I'm so excited about both of our guests today.

Dr. Carla Williams is an assistant professor in the Division of General Internal Medicine and Hospital Medicine at UAB in Birmingham, Alabama.

She serves as an assistant program director and the Director of Diversity and Inclusion for the Tinsley Harrison Internal Medicine Residency Program.

She's a passion for advancing diversity, equity, and inclusion and graduate medical education and care delivery and was recognized as the recipient of the 2020 Dean's Excellence Award in Diversity.

She's recently worked with colleagues to develop a formal

curriculum to address microaggressions and other inappropriate behaviors in the medical environment.

This initiative has created a platform to have safe and honest discussions about the presence

and effect of bias, including racial and gender derogations. In the medical environment, and has been presented and implemented at numerous academic institutions

at the undergraduate and graduate medical education levels, the ultimate goal is to bring

awareness to our implicit and explicit biases in an effort to cultivate more inclusive learning

and clinical environments for

trainees, faculty, and patients.

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