IAMSE Manuals

This manual is an instructional guide to provide healthcare educators with best practices for acknowledging and addressing racial and ethnic health disparities (REHD) in medical education. As a collaborative effort written by both medical students and educators, this manual examines the impact of race, racism, and ethnic biases on medical care and health outcomes. 

This book enables readers to understand and apply key terms encompassing health disparities, bias, and cultural humility as an approach to demystify stereotypes, social assumptions and long-held misperceptions that influence the misuse of race in medical teachings. By examining the construct of race, differences between race-based and race-conscious medicine are distinguished. As such, medical educators will be guided to consider the effects of socioeconomic differences, environmental factors, and institutional racism between population categories with regard to healthcare compliance and outcomes.

Supported by evidence-based recommendations, this manual provides medical educators, curriculum managers, and institutions with strategies and checklists to improve their medical curricula to ensure a well-defined understanding of race and ethnicity in medicine. This book serves as a resource for medical educators and students as they aspire to become more culturally competent, equity-minded, and inclusive healthcare professionals. 

The demand for online health professional educational programs has grown rapidly in recent years, driven by technological advances and an increasing learner appetite for flexible, accessible educational experiences. As the uptake of online techniques has increased, so has the research into their pedagogical underpinnings. However, the speed of these developments means many health professional educators remain unfamiliar with the evidence base and practicalities of actually designing and delivering these learning experiences.
This book summarizes best practices in online education in a succinct, curated, and practical manner. It is designed with the busy health professional educator in mind and is written by fellow health professional educators who understand the everyday challenges of the role. It highlights core principles, gives step-by-step guidance on how to implement these for clinical learners and includes copious ‘tips and tricks’ to facilitate success.
Covering everything from basic online implementations through to the advanced integration of Artificial Intelligence into learning programs, this book will serve as a valuable resource for any educator wanting to familiarise themselves with this important new discipline.