"You’re lucky. If you’re a minority all doors are open to you."
"He’s ‘working from home today,’ so he’s probably out golfing."
"You’re too pretty to be a doctor."
How would you respond?
In the fast-paced speed of work, people often breeze by these subtle and, at times, overt comments. Only when people's minds slow down do they replay events, reflect on what they could have done better and defer action – until next time.
John Cullen, PhD, director of diversity and inclusion for the Clinical and Translational Science Institute at the University of Rochester Medical Center will be using real-life experiences to illuminate problems, shift perspectives and enact change now. All UNMC faculty and staff are invited to take a closer look at the words and body language needed to be more responsive to microaggressions and biases that appear in our work every day at UNMC and Nebraska Medicine.
Join your colleagues for quality improvement in action. This session promises to be memorable, with lasting impact from what attendees experience. Make time to be on the Omaha campus for the training on June 9 from 11:30 a.m. to 2 p.m.
The event — "Up Your Game NOW: Responding to Bias and Microaggressions" — is co-sponsored by UNMC Faculty Development and the Offices of Inclusion and Equity. For more information or to register, please visit go.unmc.edu/event-registration.
This important training has been custom designed to be in-person and highly interactive – a Zoom option will not be available. Due to the sensitive subject matter, this session will not be recorded.