{"id":19559,"date":"2024-03-14T14:51:18","date_gmt":"2024-03-14T18:51:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/?p=19559"},"modified":"2024-03-14T14:51:18","modified_gmt":"2024-03-14T18:51:18","slug":"geisel-school-of-medicine-professor-receives-funding-for-medical-education-research-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/2024\/geisel-school-of-medicine-professor-receives-funding-for-medical-education-research-project\/","title":{"rendered":"Geisel School of Medicine Professor Receives Funding for Medical Education Research Project"},"content":{"rendered":"

Abigail (Abby) Konopasky, PhD, director of medical education research and scholarship and associate professor of medical education at Geisel School of Medicine, has received a Medical Education Scholarship Research and Evaluation grant from the Northeast Group on Educational Affairs (NEGEA) to initiate a new project.<\/p>\n

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Abigail (Abby) Konopasky, PhD<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

NEGEA, one of four regional groups of the Association of American Medical Colleges, fosters excellence in medical education and is interested in promoting collaboration across and within institutions to stimulate the development of a community of medical education scholars.<\/p>\n

Geisel\u2019s Konopasky and her research partner Carmen Black, MD, assistant professor of psychiatry and director of Social Justice and Health Equity (SJHE) Education at Yale School of Medicine, are investigating the generational impact of racial trauma.<\/p>\n

Although medical education is beginning to address racism through its research and practices, the field has not fully addressed the generational impact of racial trauma. Current Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Justice (DEIJ) efforts still apply \u201cBlack or African American\u201d to all Black racialized physicians or trainees regardless of historical or cultural background. This approach ignores the experiences of those whose ancestors were enslaved here within the U.S.\u2014 Historically Black Americans (HBAs), while many DEIJ leaders are themselves HBAs.<\/p>\n

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Konopasky's research partner Carmen Black, MD, assistant professor of psychiatry and director of Social Justice and Health Equity Education at Yale School of Medicine<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The purposes of this critical qualitative interview study, Konopasky explains, are to examine how DEIJ leaders\u2019 historical and cultural identities and resources influence their exercise of agency to resist white supremacy and, based on those findings, to work collaboratively with HBAs in medicine to develop recommendations for integrating historical and cultural perspectives into DEIJ work.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis grant will allow us to see and honor the full historical identities of those doing the important work of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Justice,\u201d Konopasky says, \u201cso that future work in medical education\u2014ours and that of others\u2014can move from the homogenizing category, \u2018underrepresented in medicine\u2019 to seeing the full identity of each member of our community.\u201d<\/p>\n

Drawing on both linguistics and psychology, Konopasky\u2019s research centers on linguistic tools to better understand inequity, agency, and resistance with currently and historically marginalized individuals. Her Critical Approaches to Language and Equity (CALE) Lab brings together linguistic and narrative tools with critical theories such as Black Feminist Theory, Queer Theory, and Critical Disability Studies to both uncover and understand experiences of inequity and injustice.<\/p>\n

Black\u2019s research focuses on promoting historically informed racial justice within academic medicine and addressing iatrogenic (unintentionally induced) influences of poor patient care\u2014specifically racism and mental health discrimination within daily clinical practice. She is a national advocate for patient and provider safety promoting the equitable treatment of behavioral emergencies by removing police- and security-based interventions from general hospital medicine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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