Interprofessional Education and Practice

Anti-racism is a growing and very important area of academic interest. Currently, there is little research to be found about IPE's place in anti-racism efforts, but we hope this guide will help inspire future research and innovation at the University of Michigan.

If you're aware of additional resources, please share them with us! Email suggestions to THL-IPE-Team@umich.edu and we'll add them to this page.

While these are not directly related to IPE, you may be interested in some related resource guides created by the University of Michigan Library. 

• Anti-Racism 
  • A great starting place for resources on anti-racism work, with a particular focus on COVID-19 and racial disparities in Southeast Michigan. 
• Skin of Color
  • Resources for teaching, learning, research, and clinical practice in all areas of healthcare and their intersection with skin of color.
• Health Disparities
  • An interdisciplinary guide to studying health disparities in the United States.
• U.S. Community Health
  • A guide to finding data about national, state, and local population demographics and their associated health concerns.

Books:

• Developing Anti-Racist Practices in the Helping Professions (2022).
  • Includes a number of chapters on anti-racist pedagogy, higher education, and health professions education. 

Webinars:

• Exploring Anti-Racism in Health Professions Education (2022)
  • Presented by the Academic Partnerships to Improve Health (APIH) and Interprofessional Education Collaborative (IPEC). Free access to the recording with registration. 

A selection of articles, organized by date. 

• Developing virtual simulations to confront racism and bias in health professions education (2022) 
• An inter-professional antiracist curriculum is paramount to addressing racial health inequities (2022)
• Indigenous-led First Peoples health interprofessional and simulation-based learning innovations: Mixed methods study of nursing academics’ experience of working in partnership (2022)
• Antiracism in health professions education through the lens of the health humanities (2022)
• How should health professional education respond to widespread racial and ethnic health inequity and police brutality? (2021)
• Towards antiracism: Using critical race theory as a tool to disrupt the status quo in health professions education (2021)
• Scientific racism attitudes among diverse undergraduate pre–health professions students (2021)
• Practical lessons for teaching about race and racism: Successfully leading free, frank, and fearless discussions (2020)
• More than words: A vision to address bias and reduce discrimination in the health professions learning environment (2020)
• Addressing harmful bias and eliminating discrimination in health professionals learning environments: Conference recommendations (2020).
• Health Equity Rounds: An interdisciplinary case conference to address implicit bias and structural racism for faculty and trainees (2019)
• Recognizing racism in medicine: A student-organized and community-engaged health professional conference (2019)
• Commentary: Racism and bias in health professions education: How educators, faculty developers, and researchers can make a difference (2017)
• Breaking the silence: Time to talk about race and racism (2017)

A selection of articles, organized by date. 

• Becoming an anti-racist interprofessional healthcare organization: Our journey (2022)
• How abolition of race-based medicine is necessary to American health justice (2022)
• Following through: Interventions to improve long-term outcomes of preterm infants (2021)
• Implementing an interprofessional anti-racism training with community partners during a pandemic: Outcomes and recommended strategies (2021)
• Planning for diverse, equitable, inclusive research in health professions education: An integral thread in the ARMED MedEd research course (2021)
• How interprofessional collaborative practice can help dismantle systemic racism (2020). 
• Keeping race at the center of school discipline practices and trauma-informed care: An interprofessional framework (2020). 
• Building the Transdisciplinary Resistance Collective for Research and Policy: Implications for dismantling structural racism as a determinant of health inequity (2020). 

Many organizations around the country have put together excellent resource lists of anti-racism in the health sciences. These include links to articles, books, podcasts, videos, organizations, and more. Here are a few.

There are many open resources on these guides, but there are also some (particularly in book lists) which may take you to a non-U-M library link. Paste those titles into the U-M library search box, for U-M access. Contact us if you run into any problems! 

• Diversity and Anti-Racism in the Health Sciences by Northeastern University Library
• Racism in Medicine and Healthcare by University of Nevada Las Vegas
  • This link goes to the "Articles, Curricula & Media" page of the "Anti-Black Racism Resources" part of this guide, but there's a lot more to explore using the left-hand navigation. 
• Anti-Racism Resources by the University of California San Francisco Weill Institute of Neurosciences

You may also be interested to know about anti-racist interprofessional courses or programs offered at the following institutions: 

• Ohio State University
• University of Manitoba
• University of Washington