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The impact of provider bias on clinical decision-making is believed to contribute to health disparities. We describe the results of an educational intervention using implicit association testing (IAT) aimed at promoting student and faculty awareness of personal bias regarding age and disability. We found that aggregate participant results trended toward a preference for young and abled people (a bias against older and disabled people). Potential strategies for handling discussion of personal bias in the educational setting are reviewed. Future research is needed regarding the impact of the physician assistant (PA) educational experience on trainees' personal biases.
Archambault et al. (Tue,) studied this question.