College of Medicine

The Center for Underrepresented Minorities in Academic Medicine along with the Council on Diversity and Inclusion sponsored a AAMC webinar on “Mitigating Stereotype threat in academic medicine” on Wednesday July 23, 2014.

This webinar was designed to educate participants on the ways stereotype threat impacts our medical school environment and provide ways to address and prevent threat. This webinar was recorded and can be made available for review.

Suggested reading: Whistling Vivaldi: How Stereotypes Affect Us and What We Can Do (Issues of Our Time) by Claude M. Steele and 'Whistling Vivaldi' And Beating Stereotypes.