Designing for Equity in Medical Education 

Our goal is to generate practical solutions to assessment inequity in the contexts in which it happens – the clinical and educational environments where pediatric trainees learn and serve patients - while collecting and evaluating data and evidence.

We work alongside local stakeholders, including pediatric resident learners, assessors, program staff, and program leadership, to identify systemic, process-level inequities and pressing needs in the local context. We center marginalized stakeholders to co-create and implement minimally viable prototypes (i.e., simple, low-tech/no-tech solutions), then test, develop, improve, and refine the prototype assessment systems over time.

Using a mix of qualitative and quantitative methods, we collect evidence of the equity, utility, feasibility, and acceptability of the assessment systems.