Event
Epidemiology Seminar: Jay Kaufman - Differential Treatment in Medical Practice: Racism Without Racists
Monday, November 18, 2019 16:00to17:00
McIntyre Medical Building
Room 504, 3655 promenade Sir William Osler, Montreal, QC, H3G 1Y6, CA
Jay Kaufman
Differential Treatment in Medical Practice: Racism Without Racists
1. Consider formal definitions for discrimination in medical treatment that account for covariates;
2. Discuss various study designs for detecting discrimination in relation to conscious and unconscious bias, and considering the sources of this bias;
3. Evaluate an example one common medical algorithm in kidney disease epidemiology to consider whether it is rational or ethical.