"Let's Talk About What Just Happened": a Single-Site Survey Study of a Microaggression Response Workshop for Internal Medicine Residents

Herrick N Fisher^{1

2}, Paula Chatterjee^{3

4}, Jo Shapiro^{5

6}, Joel T Katz^{7

5}, Maria A Yialamas^{7

5}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Medicine, Brigham & Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA. hnfisher@bwh.harvard.edu.
² Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA. hnfisher@bwh.harvard.edu.
³ Division of General Internal Medicine, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
⁴ Leonard Davis Institute for Health Economics, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
⁵ Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA.
⁶ Department of Anesthesia, Pain and Critical Care, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.
⁷ Department of Medicine, Brigham & Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.

Herrick N Fisher et al. J Gen Intern Med. 2021 Nov.

. 2021 Nov;36(11):3592-3594.

doi: 10.1007/s11606-020-06576-6. Epub 2021 Jan 21.

Herrick N Fisher^{1

2}, Paula Chatterjee^{3

4}, Jo Shapiro^{5

6}, Joel T Katz^{7

5}, Maria A Yialamas^{7

5}

¹ Department of Medicine, Brigham & Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA. hnfisher@bwh.harvard.edu.
² Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA. hnfisher@bwh.harvard.edu.
³ Division of General Internal Medicine, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
⁴ Leonard Davis Institute for Health Economics, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
⁵ Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA.
⁶ Department of Anesthesia, Pain and Critical Care, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.
⁷ Department of Medicine, Brigham & Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.

No abstract available

Conflict of interest statement

The authors have no conflicts of interest.

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