“You Said, I Heard”: Speaking the Subtext in Interracial Conversations

摘要: Medical trainees who come from racial and ethnic minority communities and/or economically educationally disadvantaged backgrounds face unique external internalized challenges that may lead to academic difficulties. Given there are still few faculty members communities, supervision is likely be cross-racial. Using illustrative cases their own personal experience as supervisor student, the authors, director of Social Stress Health Research Unit in Department Psychology St. John’s University a PhD candidate this program, review what known about dynamics racism, its effects on mood, pathways through which racism affect performance. In particular, they discuss interracial communication styles, race-based stereotypes, formation schemas self others. They suggest strategies combat judgments we not even aware, recognize stereotype threat confirmation bias, address these issues within student teacher relationships.