Toolkits, Publications, & Additional Resources

TOOLKITS

• Association of Program Directors in Surgery: Diversity, Inclusion, and Equity Toolbox
• Asian-American Racial Justice Toolkit
• Black Medical Students Association: Call to Action
• Jewish Racial Justice Resources
• Muslim Anti-Racism Collaborative
• USC Center for Urban Education: Racial Equity Tools
• UCSF: Antiracism Toolkit for Medical Educators
• UCSF Multicultural Resource Centre
• UCLA Center for the Study of Racism, Social Justice, and Health
• Request a Woman Scientist: A database for diversifying the public face of science

TRAINING TOOLS AND EDUCATION GUIDES

• A Guide to Allyship
• Call to action to all surgery journal editors
• Diversity style guides for journalists (The Open Notebook)
• Equal co-authorship practices: Review and recommendations (Hosseini 2020)
• Interrupting bias: Calling out vs. calling in
• Project Change: Training for racial equity and inclusion
• Harvard Racial Bias Test

PUBLICATIONS

• Department of Surgery: 
  Exploring the pattens of practice and satisfaction among female urologists in Canada (Hird et al 2020)
• Intersectionality of gender and visible minority status among general surgery residents in Canada (Mocanu V, Kuper T, Marini W, et al 2020)

Other:

• Effects of gender bias stereotypes in surgical training (Myers et al 2020)
• Endocrine surgery is at the forefront of gender diversity (Schoel 2020)
• Racial diversity in orthopaedic surgery (Ramirez 2019)
• Practice patterns and work environments that influence gender inequality among academic surgeons (Zhang 2020)
• Mentorship strategies to foster inclusivity in surgery during a virtual era (Moreno AM, Dimick JB, Newman EA 2020)
• The pregnant surgeon (Harnsberger & Davids 2019)
• Female trainees believe that having children will negatively impact their careers (Kin 2018)
• Parenting while in training: A comprehensive needs assessment of residents and fellows (Magudia 2020)
• Pregnancy and motherhood during surgical training (Rangel 2018)
• Organizational barriers to and facilitators for female surgeons’ career progression (Hirayama 2018)
• COVID-19 and racial disparities: Moving towards social equity (Bonner 2020)
• Racial anxiety among medical residents: Institutional implications of social accountability (Bradley 2019)
• An exploratory study on microaggressions in medical school: What are they and why should we care? (Espaillat 2019)
• Representation of women in the society of thoracic surgeons authorship and leadership positions (Olive 2020) (Kwong 2017)
• Handing the microphone to women: Changes in gender representation in editorial contributions across medical and health journals 2008-2018 (Chang 2020)
• BMJ Opinion: Let’s equalize our antiracist language (Alwan 2020)
• NEJM: How medical education is missing the bull’s eye (Nolen 2020)

ARTICLES

• Globe & Mail Opinion: Let’s just admit it, Canada has a racism problem
• The Chronicles of Higher Education: A survival guide for Black, Indigenous, and other women of colour in academic life
• The Atlantic: Women scientists have the evidence about sexism
• CBC: National research project to probe racism in healthcare amid COVID-19 pandemic
• Faculty of Medicine: Gaps in data impact patients considering gender affirming surgery
• 103 things white people can do for racial justice
• The Toronto Star: Female doctors are consistently paid less than male physicians. A new paper proposes ways to close Canadian medicine’s gender wage gap

VIDEOS

• A conversation on race and privilege with Angela Davis & Jane Elliott 13th (Ava Duvernay)
• How to be an antiracist (Dr. Ibrahim Kendi)
• White Awake: An honest look at what it means to be white (Daniel Hill)
• Justice by design (Antionette Carroll)

PODCASTS

• Intersectionality Matters (Kimberle Crenshaw)
• Momentum: A race forward (Color Lines)
• Code Switch: A decade of watching people die
• Still Processing: Kaepernick

BOOKS

• 21 Things You May Not Know About the Indian Act - Bob Joseph
• Diversity and Cultural Competence in Healthcare - Janice L. Dreachslin
• An Inclusive Academy: Achieving Diversity and Excellence - Abigail J. Stewart
• Where Do We Go From Here? - Martin Luther King Jr.
• The Emperor has no Clothes - Tema Okun
• Automating Inequity: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor - Virginia Eubanks
• White Rage - Carol Anderson
• The Fire This Time - Jesmyn Ward
• So You Want to Talk About Race - Ijeoma Olue
• How to be an Anti Racist - Ibram X. Kendi
• Stamped from the Beginning - Ibram X. Kendi
• I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings - Maya Angelou
• The Bluest Eye - Toni Morrison
• The Warmth of Other Suns - Isabel Wilkerson
• Their Eyes Were Watching God - Zora Neale Hurston
• The New Jim Crow and Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness - Michelle Alexander
• Sister Outsider - Audre Lorde
• Wandering in Strange Lands - Morgan Jerkins
• Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race - Reni Eddo-Lodge
• Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents - Isabel Wilkerson
• Entitled: How Male Privilege Hurts Women - Kate Manne
• Invisible Women - Caroline Criado Perez
• All Boys Aren’t Blue - George M. Johnson
• Disability Disability - Alice Wong
• As We Have Always Done - Leanne Simpson
• All Our Relations - Tanya Talaga
• A Mind Spread Out on the Ground - Alicia Elliot
• The Unexpected Cop - Ernie Louttit
• The End of Policing - Alex Vitale
• Divided Loyalties - Nilofar Shidmehr
• Mamaskatch - Darrel J. McLeod
• War/Torn - Hasan Namir
• The Art of Leaving - Ayelet Tsabari
• Halfbreed - Maria Campbell
• Clearing the Plains - James Daschuk
• A National Crime: The Canadian Government and the Residential School System - John S. Milloy
• Policing Black Lives: State Violence in Canada from Slavery to Present - Robyn Maynard
• The Skin We’re In - Demond Cole
• BOOKS - MEDICAL/SCIENCE FOCUS
• Black Man in a White Coat - Damon Tweedy
• Superior: The Return of Race Science - Angela Saini
• Inferior: How Science Got Women Wrong & the New Research That’s Rewriting the Story - Angela Saini
• Love Thy Neighbour: A Muslim Doctor’s Struggle for Home in Rural America - Ayaz Virji
• I Shall Not Hate - Izzeldin Abuelaish
• Body and Soul: The Black Panther Party & the Fight Against Medical Discrimination - Alondra Nelson
• Medical Apartheid - Harriet Washington
• Invisible Visits - Tina K. Sacks
• Black and Blue: The Origins and Consequences of Medical Racism - John Hoberman
• Medicine Unbundled: Dispatches from the Indigenous Frontlines - Gary Geddes
• Separate Beds - Maureen K. Lux
• Killing the Black Body - Dorothy Roberts
• Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics, and Big Business Recreate Race in the 21st Century - Dorothy Roberts
• The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down - Anne Fadiman
• My Own Country - Abraham Varghese
• Clifford - Harold R. Johnson
• A Heavy Reckoning: War, Medicine, and Survival in Afghanistan and Beyond - Emily Mayhew
• This One Looks Like a Boy - Lorimer Shenher
• Misfits - Anreas Souvaliotis
• Legacy - Suzanne Methot
• From Eve to Evolution: Darwin, Science, and Women’s Rights in Gilded Age America - Kimberly Hamlin
• Disintegrate/Dissociate - Arielle Twist
• Medical Bondage: Race, Gender, and the Origins of American Gynaecology - Deirdre Cooper Owens