Teaching Behavioral Skills to Promote Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, and Anti-oppression Through Simulation
摘要
This chapter discusses how equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) training in healthcare education requires a shift from bias awareness to transformative learning that includes behavioral skills training. Such skills, which include effective communication, trust building, and expressing empathy, among others, are vital in addressing bias and promoting equity. Simulation-based training is an ideal strategy for developing these skills, offering opportunities for deliberate practice, mastery learning, and structured debriefs. The literature on using simulation for EDI-related skills is relatively scarce but growing. The chapter provides examples of programs using simulation to teach EDI-related behaviors, drawing on published literature as well as the authors’ own experiences. It provides recommendations to deliver such programs effectively and discusses common pitfalls. Recommendations include making participation in training voluntary, ensuring an inclusive learning environment, and taking a trauma-informed approach to education. The importance of authentic representation and facilitator training is emphasized, as well as the recognition that conversations around EDI can be difficult, resulting in varying impacts on participants from different backgrounds and lived experiences. The chapter concludes with a call for further research and the evolution of best practices in EDI-related behavioral training.