Hi folks, I'll be speaking about this at the Futurist Forum and I'm excited. For a while now this has been bouncing around my head and I'm glad to share the conundrum. My background is motivation psychology, so it's been known to me since undergrad that financial incentives are among the WEAKEST and most fragile motivators of behaviour. Thus it's been funny to me that so much emphasis is placed on mitigating it, to almost the complete exclusion or discussion of other potential infiltrations of bias. What are the kinds of biases that you see in your practice? I'd love to chat with y'all about these.
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Hello Terry,
Thank you for posting here and I am interested in learning more about how you see bias. I agree that bias in medical education has been focused on financial concerns mostly, particularly in the US and with the ACCME. I see many potential biases that can impact presenters at continuing medical education. A presenter can be an expert in an area of medicine, but the audience has to critically evaluate their background (degrees, academic institutions, clinical appointments, and professional associations) as well as their research and publications. Understanding the breadth of their expertise will help in accepting what they are discussing.