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Amy Caruso Brown, MD, is a bioethicist and a pediatric oncologist at Upstate Medical University.
Amy Caruso Brown, MD, is a bioethicist and a pediatric oncologist at Upstate Medical University.

Checklist aims to overcome biases in medical training

Preventing bias in medical decision making is the intention behind a checklist being used in medical schools. It is designed to help people who train doctors, nurses and other health care professionals to examine whether they are teaching based on evidence or on biases and unproven assumptions about race, sex, culture and other factors. The checklist's designer, Amy Caruso Brown, MD, explains how it works and was developed. She is a pediatric oncologist and bioethicist at Upstate who has researched disparities in health care among different racial, ethnic and socioeconomic groups, and she also teaches medical students.

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