Mitigating microaggressions to foster belonging

When: 12 October, 2023, 8 AM-12 PM

Physical therapist and physical therapist assistants with historically marginalized identities experience various forms of discrimination in everyday life as well as in academic and clinical practice settings. These commonplace slights, or microaggressions - whether intentional or unintentional, may lead to a decreased sense of belonging in the profession.

Consider two scenarios that you may have encountered or been witness to.

As an academic educator, imagine a black graduate student walking through campus who is stopped by a white professor. The professor asks “Excuse me. Do you need directions? You seem like you are lost.” The graduate student grimaces, and replies, “Why in the world would you think I’m lost?” As a bystander to this conversation, how would you intervene?

In a clinical education environment, consider a male physical therapist student who identifies as gay but has only recently come out to close friends and family. This individual chose not to share his sexual orientation with his clinical instructor and before an initial evaluation with a patient who shared their pronouns, the clinical instructor remarked: “Between all these consonants and pronouns, it’s getting uncomfortable to have to deal with some people.” As a director of clinical education, how could you support this student?

This course will prepare participants to identify ways implicit bias can lead to unintentional discrimination and cause harm to students, patients and clinicians. Participants in this course will learn terminology and concepts regarding bias and microaggressions, as well as strategies to disarm them both in the classroom and in the clinic. Active learning methods will be utilized including a small group case-based discussion and a simulation-based learning experience.

Key Session Points and Learning Objectives:

Define microaggressions, microinsults, micro-assaults, and microinvalidations
Understand that everyone has implicit biases which influence behaviors and thoughts
Describe how implicit bias can lead to expression of microaggressions
Discuss the impact that microaggressions have on individuals and society
Devise and discuss effective strategies to disarm microaggressions, microinsults, micro-assaults and microinvalidations

Location: Salon D, Marriott Philadelphia Downtown

Time & date: Thursday, October 12, 2023, 8:00 AM – noon EST

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Fee

$100 for ACAPT members
$150 for non-members

Target audience:

Clinical instructors
Physical therapists
Physical therapist assistant educators
Academic faculty
Administrators

CEU: 0.40

Speakers

Chris Cesario, PT, DPT, MBA, Northeastern University

Dr. Chris Cesario started his clinical career in acute care at New England Baptist Hospital. Over his 8 years there, he treated patients in a variety of settings and diagnoses, including their subacute rehab unit, occupational health department and outpatient services. His primary clinical expertise was in outpatient orthopedics and sports medicine. He completed his MBA and after spending 5 years at the Boston University Physical Therapy Center, he changed careers to work in hospital administration in the Department of Surgery at Brigham & Women’s Hospital. After almost 3 years in that role, he joined the faculty of the Department of Physical Therapy, Movement & Rehabilitation Sciences in the fall of 2010. Dr. Cesario teaches in the administrative classes, focusing on leadership, administrative issues specific to physical therapists and business principles. He has also redesigned the clinical education matching process to be more holistic, using data from both students and clinical partners to find the best matches for all stakeholders.

Debbie Bangs, PT, DPT, Northeastern University

Debra Bangs, PT, DPT, Associate Clinical Professor has been a DCE for the past ten years at Northeastern University in Boston. She assumed the role of Senior Director of Clinical Education in the Summer of 2021. She graduated with her BS from Northeastern University, her transitional DPT from Massachusetts General Hospital’s Institute of Health Professions in 2010. She is currently working on completing her EdD at Northeastern University. Her research interests include clinical education, teaching cultural humility, and the use of PT in patients with substance use disorder. Her dissertation work is an action research project on DPT student stress and psychological distress, the causes and coping mechanisms uses. Her research has been presented at several national conferences and she recently presented at the World Physiotherapy Congress on a co-authored grant related to training clinical instructors to work with students who identify as LGBTQ+. She is a level 1 and 2 Certified Clinical Instructor and is a Certified Trainer for Certified Clinical Instructor Program. Debra partners with faculty in several courses to integrate high fidelity simulation into the program and has been trained through Harvard’s Center for Simulation in simulation and debriefing practices. She has been an active member of ACAPT’s SIPTEC library development committee and is actively engaged with her local clinical education consortium and the APTA.

Sheri R. Kiami, PT, DPT, MS, NCS, Northeastern University

Dr. Kiami is an Associate Clinical Professor at Northeastern University. She received her BS in Biological Sciences from Cornell University, and her Master’s and Doctorate in Physical Therapy from Simmons University. Her primary teaching responsibilities are in neurological rehabilitation. Dr. Kiami is Vice Chair of ACAPT’s Simulation in Physical Therapy Education Consortium and a member of the Simulation Leadership Council at Bouve College. She serves as the DEI Lead for the School of Clinical & Rehabilitation Sciences. Dr. Kiami’s research focuses on the scholarship of teaching and learning and use of simulation to improve students’ clinical reasoning skills and cultural agility.

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