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General Topic: ARP Interprofessional

12S154: Daltroy: Redefining Imposter Syndrome: Eliminating Bias and Transforming Culture

Sunday, November 12, 2023
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM PT
Location: Room 6A-B
CE: 1

On Demand In Person Livestreamed

    Speaker(s)

  • Puja Mehta, MD, MBBS

    UCL
    london, United Kingdom

    Disclosure(s): EUSA: Speaker/Honoraria (includes speakers bureau, symposia, and expert witness) (Terminated, June 1, 2023); GlaxoSmithKlein(GSK): Grant/Research Support (Ongoing); Pfizer: Advisor or Review Panel Member (Ongoing); UCB: Advisor or Review Panel Member (Ongoing), Consultant (Ongoing)

The popular term 'imposter syndrome' refers to a feeling of persistent self-doubt and feeling like a fraud, not correlated to competence. Solutions are focused towards building resilience and confidence in the individuals affected. However, the speaker is often actually experiencing a credibility deficit, known has 'testimonial injustice'. Testimonial injustice occurs when the listener discounts the credibility of the speaker’s word due to prejudice about their social identity, and is often associated with gender, ethnicity, class, sexuality or religion. Solutions should be focused on eliminating implicit or explicit systematic bias within institutions, rather than focusing on individuals, to ultimately improve clinical and research culture.

Learning Objectives:

  • Define ‘imposter syndrome’ and reframe our thinking to ‘testimonial injustice’, where external prejudice creates credibility deficit.
  • Understand the impact of ‘imposter syndrome’ on individuals, institutions and patients - clinical care and research.
  • Propose and discuss solutions to address imposter syndrome/testimonial injustice at the individual and institutional level to improve clinical and research culture

Presentations:

  • 4:00 PM - 4:45 PM PT
    Redefining Imposter Syndrome: Eliminating Bias and Transforming Culture

    Speaker: Puja Mehta, MD, MBBS – UCL

  • 4:45 PM - 5:00 PM PT
    Q&A