Inclusive Career Conversations Resources
Overview
Engage with recommended resources and references to further enhance your learning about topics covered in the Inclusive Career Conversations: Reducing Bias, Career Choice Disparagement and Bullying Training.
Topic: Career Decision Making
Florida State University pioneered Cognitive Information Processing Theory and the CASVE decision-making cycle. Learn how to put these tools and approaches into practice:
Topic: Career Conversations – Medical School
Gain career conversation tips from the Primary Care Career Advising and Mentoring Program presented by the Connecticut Area Health Education Center:
Topic: Research & Data – Career Disparagement and Bullying | Bias
- Hostility During Training: Historical Roots of Primary Care Disparagement
- The Dark Side of Development: A Systems Characterization of the Negative Mentoring Experiences of Doctoral Students
- Effect of an Intervention to Break the Gender Bias Habit for Faculty at One Institution: A Cluster Randomized, Controlled Trial
Topic: Empathy in Relationships
The Toronto Empathy Questionnaire is a self-report questionnaire measuring one’s emotional ability when engaging with others. Engaging in empathetic conversations is associated with creating respectful and safe spaces for others to share.
Topic: Implicit Bias
The Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race & Ethnicity provides a 4-module training focusing on understanding and combatting implicit bias and its negative impact on access and racial disparity.
Topic: Motivational Interviewing
Learn Motivational Interviewing questions and skills to incorporate in advising conversations, guiding and supporting individuals through change. oguide and support individuals
- 17 Motivational Interviewing Questions and Skills
- Motivational Interviewing Network of Trainers (MINT)
Topic: Labels and Bias
Nigerian writer Chimamanda Adichie describes the effects that labels can have on how one thinks about themselves and about others. (TedEx Talk)
References
Module 2
Association of American Medical Colleges. (2020). Medical School Graduation Questionnaire: 2020 All Schools Summary Report, Question 21, Line 6 [Data file]. Retrieved from https://www.aamc.org/media/46851/download
Employers Network of Equity and Inclusion. (2014). Disability: A research study on unconscious bias. https://www.enei.org.uk/resources/reports/disability-a-research-study-on-unconscious-bias/
Erikson, C. E., Danish, S., Jones, K. C., Sandberg, S. F., & Carle, A. C. (2013). The role of medical school culture in primary care career choice. Academic medicine : Journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges, 88 (12), 1919–1926. https://doi.org/10.1097/ACM.0000000000000038
Fleming, A.R., Plotner, A.J., Oertle, K.M. (2017). College Students with Disabilities: The Relationship Between Student Characteristics, the Academic Environment, and Performance. Journal of Postsecondary Education and Disability, 30(3), 209-221.
Fries-Britt, S. (2017). It takes more than academic preparation: A nuanced look at Black male success in STEM. Journal of African American Males in Education, 8, 6-22.
Gibbs, K.D. Jr, McGready, J., Bennett, J.C., Griffin, K. (2014) Biomedical science Ph.D. career interest patterns by race/ethnicity and gender. PLoS ONE 9(12). doi:10.1371/ journal.pone.0114736
Hurtado, S., Newman, C.B., Tran, M.C., & Chang, M.J. (2010). Improving the rate of success for underrepresented racial minorities in STEM fields: Insights from a national project. New Directions for Institutional Research, 2010(148), 5-15.
Research, N.. (2019). 2019 Nature PhD Students Survey Data (Version 1). figshare. https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.10266299.v1
Module 4
Gottfredson, L. (1981). Circumscription and compromise: A developmental theory of occupational aspirations. Journal of Counseling Psychology Monograph, 28(6), 545-579.
Module 5
Miller, W.R. & Rollnick, S. (2013) Motivational Interviewing: Helping people to change (3rd Edition). Guilford Press.