Positionality, Power, and Practice: Navigating Identity and Power in Medical Education and Clinical Care

Description:

This interactive workshop introduces medical educators to concepts including, social identity, privilege, power, oppression, positionality, intersectionality, and implicit bias, and explores how these concepts shape both educational practice and clinical care.

Participants will engage in guided individual reflection and facilitated collective dialogue to examine how their own social positioning influences curriculum design, teaching interactions, assessment practices, and relationships with learners. The session also explicitly extends this reflection into clinical contexts, inviting participants to consider how positionality and power shape patient–provider relationships, interprofessional teams, and healthcare spaces.

The workshop concludes with a practical discussion focused on navigating power imbalances in medical education and clinical practice, with attention to ethical responsibility, professional accountability, and creating safer, more equitable learning and care environments.

This workshop is part of the Schulich CPD-EDID Workshop Series. Schulich faculty are priority registrants but it is open to all Western faculty, all health professions educators and all learners in the health professions. This workshop will be delivered virtually via Zoom.

For more information, visit: EDID Workshop Series or contact us at cpdedidteam@groups.uwo.ca 

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