Unpacking Polarities, Diversity Meets Reality: Grappling with the Hard Edges of Inclusive Clinical Teaching
This REDI Deep Dive Facilitation Guide is an adaptable lesson plan for health sciences and professions educators leading EDI learning sessions with colleagues. Through reflection, dialogue, and case-based discussion, participants examine tensions in inclusive medical education, and identify practical strategies and systems changes that support diverse learners and more inclusive learning environments.
4 Steps to Help Deepen Awareness of Bias
This guide outlines four practical, reflective steps to help deepen awareness of bias in everyday interactions and decision-making. Adapted from Deep Diversity by Shakil Choudhury, these steps are intended as an ongoing practice to support more equitable, reflective, and inclusive approaches in education, research, and clinical environments.
Research Voices from the Field with Danièle Behn Smith, Jessica Chenery, Naomi Dove & Kate Jongbloed
In this edition, Danièle Behn Smith, Jessica Chenery, Naomi Dove & Kate Jongbloed reflect on their article book “Using a metaphor of baskets and copper pots to identify “what work, whose work” in truth, rights, responsibilities, and reconciliation in public health” and its relevance to any settler seeking to take up their role and responsibility in reconciliation.
Research Voices from the Field with Maï Yasué
In this edition, Maï Yasué, incoming Assistant Dean of Equity and Social Accountability at Simon Fraser’s new School of Medicine, reflects on why she co-authored “Embedding equity and inclusion in universities through motivational theory and community-based conservation approaches,” an article that brings an interdisciplinary, evidence-informed lens to advancing meaningful and sustained JEDII change in academic medicine.
Moments That Matter: Conflict
In this guide, we focus on Conflict as a key moment that can either strengthen respect and belonging or deepen resentment and exclusion. It highlights how conflict is inevitable and not inherently negative. The guide invites reflection on how to help ensure that conflict is addressed in ways that protect equity-deserving voices and support learning, and trust.
Research Voices from the Field with Tatiana Sotindjo
In this edition, Tatiana Sotindjo, Adolescent Medicine Specialist at the BC Children’s Hospital and Hudson Equity Diversity and Inclusion Scholar in the Department of Pediatrics, reflects on why she co-authored “The Impact of Intersectional Discrimination and Stigma on HIV Care for African, Caribbean, and Black Women Living With HIV During the COVID-19 Pandemic in British Columbia: A Descriptive Study” — a must read for scholars, educators and clinicians committed to advancing equity in healthcare systems.
REDI’s Black Authors Book List
Celebrate the voices and stories of Black authors by exploring our curated book list. These works offer profound insights into the Black experience and its impact on history, culture, and society. Deepen your understanding of racial injustice and resilience, and join us in honoring the legacy of Black writers and their contributions to literature and beyond.
Research Voices from the Field with Chelsey Perry
In this edition, Chelsey Perry, a Nisga’a First Nation scholar, a PhD candidate in the Department of Medicine, and researcher at the Indigenous Equity Lab, reflect on why they co-authored “‘Our bodies are sacred… the information we share with healthcare providers is sacred’: Envisioning the future of culturally safe healthcare systems for Indigenous women, Two-Spirit, Indigiqueer and gender diverse peoples”— a compelling call for current and future health-care providers to reflect on what culturally safe care can and should be.
REDI Moments That Matter: Onboarding
This guide focuses on Onboarding as a key moment that reveals whether commitments to equity, diversity, and inclusion are aligned with real-world practices. It highlights how early experiences shape belonging, engagement, and retention. It invites units to consider ways to level the playing field and create conditions for new faculty and staff to thrive.
REDI Digest Guides: Moving from Harm to Healing
In this edition, the guide draws on the It Starts With Us webinar Moving from Harm to Healing in EDI, Medical Education, and Clinical Practice (January 2025). It examines retributive and restorative justice approaches and their implications for responding to harm in educational and clinical settings, and invites reflection on how restorative practices can repair relationships, restore trust, and support accountability.