International Journal of Transformative Teaching and Learning in Higher Education
ORCID
Marcy Ekanayake-Weber https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8131-4738
Submission Category
Practice-Based Article
Abstract
People in marginalized communities experience reduced quality of healthcare due to complex interactions between implicit bias, stereotypes, and structural inequities, but future healthcare providers remain unprepared to confront these problems. To address the issue of health inequities in health sciences education, a project-based learning seminar for undergraduates called “Biology of Inequity” was developed and offered by the Department of Anthropology at [redacted] University in Spring semester 2022. Following the project-based learning (PBL) framework, the course was extremely interactive, culminating in a project where students were asked to “materially improve health inequalities out in the real world.” The students responded by creating a one-hour workshop for fellow undergraduate health sciences students on bias and structural healthcare inequities. The results of both the course and the workshop were overwhelmingly positive, and demonstrate an efficacious approach to improving providers’ awareness of inequities in healthcare.
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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 License (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0).
Recommended Citation
Ekanayake-Weber, Marcy S.; Cunha, Deanna; Fung, Kristi L.; MacGregor, Sydney; Ribeiro, Nicole; and Smith, Nicholas
(2025)
"Pass It Along: Learning About Health Inequities Through Project-Based Learning and a Student-Developed Workshop,"
International Journal of Transformative Teaching and Learning in Higher Education: Vol. 1:
Iss.
1, Article 5.
Available at:
https://commons.library.stonybrook.edu/ijttl/vol1/iss1/5
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Biological and Physical Anthropology Commons, Medical Education Commons, Social Justice Commons