NBME Continues 21-Day Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Educational Challenge

NBME strives to demonstrate Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) values and practices in everything we do–in our staff composition and work culture; through our products and services; and in our engagement with the Philadelphia, medical education and assessment communities. To continue enhancing our knowledge and understanding of DEI issues, and topics of interest, NBME’s DEI Advisory Council and staff volunteers curated content for our third annual 21-Day DEI Challenge. We are pleased to share with you the educational journey NBME staff participated in.

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What NBME Teams Experienced in the 21-Day DEI Challenge:

• A thematically organized and curated collection of content that builds on previous learnings.
• Daily selections of materials, which provided the flexibility to engage with one or multiple activities, depending on time available.
• Various media and resources that appealed to different learning styles and preferences.
• Approximate reading/listening/viewing times of each content item.

In addition, the content was grouped weekly. 

For Week One, the content centered social determinants of health, microaggressions, Hispanic/Latine terminology, legislation affecting DEI, environmental racism, ageism and disability in the workplace.

Materials included within Week Two were focused on cultural humility, bias in AI, wokeness in the U.S., racism/sexism in healthcare, anti-Asian sentiment in the U.S., LGBTQIA+ rights and mental health.

Lastly, the content for Week Three addressed women’s health and rights, cultural appropriation vs. appreciation, indigenous peoples, access to education in the U.S., disabilities rights movement, Black/African American history and current events and Gen Z and the future.  

Note:

Please be advised that content included in this challenge from third-party sites may include advertisements. While NBME staff selected and curated the content included in this challenge, NBME is not affiliated with these third-party sites and does not support or endorse the accompanying advertisements in any way.

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Week One 

 

Day 1  

Theme: Health equity and social determinants of health/ racism in healthcare 

Action	Content Title and Link	Timing (Minutes)
Watch	What is Health Equity? Episode 2 of "That's Public Health"	3 minutes, 53 seconds
Watch	Black Maternal Health Crisis	3 minutes, 26 seconds
Read	Anti-Asian Racism in the Medical Field is a Common Reality in Yale-led Survey	3 minutes, 26 seconds
Read	Fact Sheet: Health Disparities by Race and Ethnicity	3 minutes

 

Day 2 

Theme: Microaggressions 

Action	Content Title and Link	Timing (Minutes)
Read	Microaggressions in the Workplace: How to Identify & Respond to Them	8 minutes, 23 seconds
Watch	3 Ways to Be a Better Ally in the Workplace	9 minutes, 27 seconds
Read	Why There’s Nothing “Micro” About Microaggressions	6 minutes, 45 seconds
Read	The Most Frustrating Microaggressions Queer People Deal At Work	9 minutes, 33 seconds
Read	What are Microaggressions? And How Can They Affect Our Health?	5 minutes, 31 seconds

 

Day 3 

Theme: Hispanic/Latino/Latine'/Latinx 

Action	Content Title and Link	Timing (Minutes)
Read	How School-Based Mental Health Providers Can Help Hispanic/Latinx Students	5 minutes, 26 seconds
Read	Only 2 Percent of U.S. Doctors Are Latinas, Despite Diversity Leading to Better Care for Patients	10 minutes, 7 seconds
Watch	Hispanic/Latino/a, Latinx or Latine? Conversation Around Identity is Changing	3 minutes, 27 seconds
Watch	TikToker Breaks Down Difference Between Hispanic/Latine’/Latinx/Latino	3 minutes, 27 seconds

 

Day 4  

Theme: Current Social Shifts and Legislation Affecting DEI 

Action	Content Title and Link	Timing (Minutes)
Read	Healthy Workplace Bill	3 minutes, 16 seconds
Read	These States' Anti-DEI Legislation May Impact Higher Education	12 minutes
Read	What is With the Objection to DEI Work?	4 minutes, 28 seconds
Read/  Watch	Supreme Court Limits LGBTQ Protections With Ruling in Favor of Christian Web Designer	10 minutes, 7 seconds

 

Day 5 

Theme: Environmental Racism  

Action	Content Title and Link	Timing (Minutes)
Read	The Father of Environmental Justice Exposes the Geography of Inequity	3 minutes, 18 seconds
Watch	What Is Environmental Racism?	2 minutes, 56 seconds
Watch	Cheat Sheet: What Is Environmental Racism?	1 minutes, 49 seconds
Read	10 Egregious Examples of Environmental Racism in the U.S.	8 minutes, 9 seconds

 

Day 6  

Theme: Ageism 

Action	Content Title and Link	Timing (Minutes)
Read	Why There is 'No Right Age' to be a Woman in Leadership	2 minutes, 30 seconds
Watch	The 'Acute' Ageism Problem Hurting Young Workers	6 minutes, 50 seconds
Watch	Ashton Applewhite: Let's End Ageism	11 minutes, 23 seconds

 

Day 7  

Theme: Disability and Accessibility in the Workplace 

Action	Content Title and Link	Timing (Minutes)
Read	Disclosing a Disability in the Workplace, As Employers Focus on Creating a Culture of Inclusion	4 minutes, 51 seconds
Watch	Creating Inclusive Workplaces for All	11 minutes, 18 seconds
Watch	Ryan Gersava: A Disability-Inclusive Future of Work	5 minutes, 52 seconds
Read	10 Ways to Develop Accessibility in the Workplace	4 minutes, 34 seconds
Read	Nearly Half of Women with Disabilities Report Experiencing Sexual Harassment or Assault at Work, Poll Finds	5 minutes, 48 seconds

 

Week Two

 

Day 8 

Theme: Cultural Humility 

Action	Content Title and Link	Timing (Minutes)
Read	Are You Practicing Cultural Humility?	7 minutes, 19 seconds
Read	Cultural Humility vs. Cultural Competence — and Why Providers Need Both	3 minutes, 56 seconds
Watch	What is Cultural Humility?	2 minutes, 31 seconds
Watch	Cultural Humility | Samantha Wood | TEDxYouth@OSC	9 minutes, 17 seconds

 

Day 9  

Theme: Bias in AI 

Action	Content Title and Link	Timing (Minutes)
Read	Simulating Discrimination in Virtual Reality	5 minutes, 27 seconds
Watch	How AI Image Generators Make Bias Worse	8 minutes, 10 seconds
Watch	How to Keep Human Bias out of AI	11 minutes, 59 seconds
Listen	3 Kinds of Bias in AI Models	12 minutes, 48 seconds
Watch	Algorithmic Bias and Fairness: Crash Course AI #18	11 minutes, 19 seconds
Watch	How to Make Computers Less Biased	8 minutes, 53 seconds
Read	AI and Medical Education - A 21st-Century Pandora's Box	5 minutes, 50 seconds

 

Day 10  

Theme: Wokeness in the U.S. 

Action	Content Title and Link	Timing (Minutes)
Read	The Push to Censor Race and Racism in Children’s Books	4 minutes
Read	What Does ‘Woke’ Even Mean? How A Decades-Old Racial Justice Term Became Co-Opted by Politics	5 minutes, 14 seconds
Watch	What is the History of the Term, "Woke"?	2 minutes, 39 seconds

 

Day 11 

Theme: Racism and Sexism in Medical Healthcare 

Action	Content Title and Link	Timing (Minutes)
Read	Black Patients Adjust Behavior to Reduce Chance of Discrimination in Health Care Settings, Survey Finds	5 minutes, 55 seconds
Watch	How Is the Healthcare System Failing Black Women?	1 minutes, 28 seconds
Read	'I’m an NHS doctor And I’ve Been Sexually Assaulted by My Male Colleagues – I’m Far From the Only One'	6 minutes, 30 seconds
Watch	No Glass Ceiling': Tulane Doctor Files Discrimination Lawsuit Against Medical School	7 minutes, 24 seconds
Read	How This Black Doctor is Exposing the Racist History of Gynecology	6 minutes, 37 seconds

 

Day 12  

Theme: Anti-Asian Sentiment in the U.S. 

Action	Content Title and Link	Timing (Minutes)
Watch	Survey of Asian Americans Paints Sobering Picture of Fears About Violence	5 minutes, 54 seconds
Read	Asian Americans are Anxious About Hate Crimes. Tik Tok Ban Rhetoric Isn't Helping	12 minutes, 20 seconds

 

Day 13  

Theme: Changing Landscape Affecting LGBTQIA+ rights 

Action	Content Title and Link	Timing (Minutes)
Read	Blood Donation Policy is Updated, Allowing Gay and Bisexual Men to Give	5 minutes, 48 seconds
Read	Where It's a Crime to Be Gay: A Visual Guide to Where LGBTQ+ Rights Are Repressed	7 minutes, 25 seconds
Read	U.S. Supreme Court Deals Blow to LGBT Rights in Web Designer Case	4 minutes, 28 seconds
Read	Joe Biden: A Proclamation on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, and Intersex Pride Month, 2023	5 minutes, 10 seconds

 

Day 14  

Theme: Mental Health 

Action	Content Title and Link	Timing (Minutes)
Read	When Your Mental Illness Makes You Feel Like You're 'Too Much' for Your Friends	2 minutes, 44 seconds
Read	Federal Appeals Court Reverses Ruling That Found Mississippi Discriminated in Mental Health Care	2 minutes, 50 seconds
Read	Suppressing Negative Thoughts Might Improve Mental Health: Study	4 minutes, 40 seconds
Watch	Hailey Hardcastle: Why Students Should Have Mental Health Days	7 minutes, 14 seconds
Watch	Rob Wang: On Masculinity and Mental health	16 minutes, 56 seconds
Read	With Demand for Mental-Health Care Soaring on Campus, Faculty and Students Are Stepping Up to Help	6 minutes, 30 seconds

 

Week Three

 

Day 15  

Theme: Women’s Health and Rights 

Action	Content Title and Link	Timing (Minutes)
Read	The Pay Equity Gap Between Genders is Widening in 2023, New Study Shows	5 minutes, 6 seconds
Watch	Elizabeth Howell: How We Can Improve Maternal Healthcare -- Before, During and After Pregnancy	15 minutes, 6 seconds
Read	5 Ways to Take Action for Gender Equity Right Now	4 minutes, 16 seconds
Watch	Closing the Gap: Addressing Gender Inequities in Healthcare	10 minutes, 34 seconds

 

Day 16  

Theme: Cultural Appropriation vs. Appreciation 

Action	Content Title and Link	Timing (Minutes)
Read	What Is Cultural Appropriation?	7 minutes, 22 seconds
Watch	Cultural Appropriation vs. Appreciation	1 minute, 22 seconds
Read	Appropriation and Appreciation: What's the Difference?	2 minutes, 22 seconds
Read	Global Sport’s Problem with the Appropriation of Indigenous Culture	15 minutes, 35 seconds

 

Day 17  

Theme: Indigenous Peoples 

Action	Content Title and Link	Timing (Minutes)
Watch	Adjany Costa: Lasting Conservation, Led by Indigenous Heritage	5 minutes, 30 seconds
Read	A Grandmother Seeks Justice for Native Americans After Thousands of Unsolved Deaths, Disappearances	9 minutes, 22 seconds
Watch	A Brief But Spectacular Take on Indigenous Cultures and Struggles	2 minutes, 27 seconds
Read	Without Indigenous History, There Is No U.S. History	7 minutes, 39 seconds

 

Day 18  

Theme: Access to Education in the U.S.  

Action	Content Title and Link	Timing (Minutes)
Watch	‘Affirmative Action for the Rich.’ Legacy Students Confront Their Privilege	4 minutes, 31 seconds
Read	A College Counselor Said a Parent Offered Him $1.5 Million to Deny Service to Their Child's Classmates — Highlighting the Cutthroat Battle for Ivy League Admissions	2 minutes, 27 seconds
Watch	School Is Just the Start. Here's How to Help Girls Succeed For Life	8 minutes, 29 seconds

 

Day 19 

Theme: Disabilities Rights Movement 

Action	Content Title and Link	Timing (Minutes)
Read	The ADA Was a Victory for the Disabled Community, But We Need More. My Life Shows Why	12 minutes
Watch	Why Inclusion in the Workplace Matters ft. Disability Activist, Maddy Ruvolo	53 seconds
Read	8 Facts About Americans with Disabilities	5 minutes, 15 seconds
Watch	Employment Rights for People with Disabilities	4 minutes

 

Day 20  

Theme: Black/African American: Connecting History and Current Events  

Action	Content Title and Link	Timing (Minutes)
Watch	The Massacre of Tulsa's "Black Wall Street"	9 minutes, 12 seconds
Watch	Henrietta Lacks: The 'Immortal' Cells That Changed the World	7 minutes, 59 seconds
Read	Meet Bayard Rustin, Often-forgotten Civil Rights Activist, Gay Rights Advocate, Union Organizer, Pacifist, and Man of Compassion for All in Trouble	6 minutes, 52 seconds
Read	Central Park 'Exonerated 5' Member Reflects on Freedom and Forgiveness	7 minutes
Read	Origins of Black History Month	2 minutes, 50 seconds

 

Day 21  

Theme: Gen Z and the Future

Action	Content Title and Link	Timing (Minutes)
Read	Is Gen Z Sad? Study Shows They're More Open About Struggles with Mental Health	4 minutes, 44 seconds
Read	Gen Z: The Workers Who Want It All	11 minutes, 33 seconds
Read	What's the Matter with Men? 'Real Masculinity' Should Look to Queer Community, Gen Z	5 minutes, 9 seconds
Watch	Leah Georges: How Generational Stereotypes Hold Us Back at Work	11 minutes, 24 seconds
Watch	Andrei Adam: How to Retain Gen Z Talent	18 minutes