This workshop is presented in conjunction with Care and Custody: Past Responses to Mental Health exhibit. This exhibit, sponsored by the National Library of Medicine, will be on display in the Ginsburg Library from the end of September through the beginning of November 2021. We have prepared a weeklong online program related to the exhibit, which features workshops, speaker events, and local resources.
All students at the Health Sciences Center Campus will become practicing healthcare workers, who may work with patients dealing with mental health issues. Since people with mental health diagnoses face an extraordinary amount of stigma, as you gather literature on mental health topics, you too must be careful to review for bias in the literature. Biases can occur through all stages of the literature search process: from the way study results are reported, to how books and articles are indexed in library catalogs and databases, and to dangerous algorithms in search engines. In this workshop, you will learn about implicit bias in mental health and medical research, and we will offer strategies for how to avoid these biases. This will help students, faculty and healthcare practitioners find unbiased information to use in their clinical care and to advocate for their patients.
More information: https://ginsburgstudy.temple.edu/event/8056906