2021 SAEMF/ADIEM Research Grant - $2,600

"Bystander Intervention Training for Emergency Medicine Residents”

Mistreatment and harassment based on race, gender or sexual orientation is a pervasive problem in clinical training environments, including the emergency department. When asked about these incidents, physicians express discomfort when confronted with these situations. The goal of this project is to teach emergency medicine residents to perform bystander interventions when witnessing incidents of harassment or mistreatment.

Recipient(s)

  • Jessica Bod, MD

    Yale University School of Medicine

    Jessica Bod is an assistant professor at Yale School of Medicine department of emergency medicine. She grew up in a family of teachers; her grandfather taught chemistry, her mother is a high school biology teacher and her sister teaches second grade. During her medical training, Jessica naturally gravitated toward a career in medical education. As a resident in emergency medicine, Jessica was the inaugural “resident liaison to medical students” for the Yale emergency department, and helped to shape the curriculum for this required rotation. When she graduated, she became the assistant clerkship director and shortly thereafter became the director of medical student education. In this role, she oversees all programming related to medical students in the department of EM including the required clinical clerkship, the two types of sub-internship and the virtual elective. She is also responsible for mentoring medical students interested in pursuing careers in EM and for leading other faculty involved in medical student education, such as the associate clerkship director.
    Jessica’s interests include the creation of programs promoting residents as leaders in medical education, curriculum development and inclusive excellence in medical curricula. She has spoken about her curricular innovations locally at Medical Education Day and nationally at CORD and SAEM. Currently, Jessica is focusing on inclusive excellence content in EM curricula. She received a grant from SAEM to develop a bystander intervention training for EM residents, and is in the process of assessing the curriculum for its impact on resident behavior. This work is significant in its potential to impact the education of medical trainees for generations to come.