Standup comedy principles and the personal monologue to explore interpersonal bias: experiential learning in a health disparities course.

Background: Interpersonal biases between clinicians and patients contribute to disparities in health care and outcomes by race, ethnicity, and socioeconomic status. We used standup comedy principles and exercises to help medical students recognize how others perceive them and how they perceive others, and engage in difficult discussions around implicit biases and interpersonal racism.

Methods: 90 min Zoom workshop with 40 first-year medical students in urban medical school.