Make Yourself Comfortable: How to Be Aware of Your Implicit Biases

“I want to help people” is a common response on a medical school application, but sometimes we experience trepidation when working within a new environment or group—especially when we lack understanding of these groups. Read about how one medical student ventured outside of her comfort zone and overcame her biases to provide her community with better care.

Treating Neurodivergent Patients: A Helpful Checklist

When it comes to working with patients who have neurodivergent brains, the key lies in conscious collaboration to achieve the desired outcome. In today's Osmosis blog, Stephanie Viggiano, Digital Communications Manager with Elsevier, offers valuable strategies for effective collaboration in treating neurodivergent patients, drawing from her personal experience.

How to Provide Culturally Responsive Care to Gender-Diverse Communities

Today's Osmosis blog offers helpful tips and guidance on how doctors, nurses, and other caregivers can best provide culturally responsive care to patients across the gender identity spectrum. 

Adapted from the Hippocratic oath, "first, do no harm" is a phrase that's well-known among both medical students and physicians. One of the ways to protect patients from harm is to be intentional about how you provide care to those who are different from you in ways that may be unfamiliar such as religious beliefs, sexuality, or gender identity. 

Words Matter: The Power of Inclusive Language in Medicine

As healthcare professionals, you will be called on to continue learning and growing for the duration of your career. Yes, you’ll know more as a seasoned worker than someone fresh out of school. However, you will also build up automatic responses and—yes, it happens even to the best of us—blind spots.

One of the blind spots that doctors, nurses, and other healthcare workers have started to notice in their work is inclusivity. Inclusivity means providing equal treatment to people who might otherwise be excluded. From the most recent Future of Nursing Report to our webinar with Osmosis’ own Dr. Marina Horiates Kerekes, we are examining the ways in which access to healthcare, and the treatment received by various populations, has not been equitable, despite our best intentions.