Improving Health Equity: Resources and Solutions - Antiracism Module

Dr. Dennis Novack discusses the free Antiracism Module, funded by the Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation. Dennis came up with the idea for the module and was a principal investigator on the three-year grant. He is a professor of medicine and Associate Dean of Medical Education at Drexel University College of Medicine. Dennis is the founder of Health Care Communication, formerly known as DocCom, an online communication skills training program for medical schools, residency programs, and hospitals with 44 modules. He is also the founder of Professional Formation – an online interprofessional learning program about professionalism with 14 modules. He received the Academy for Communication in Healthcare George L. Engel award for outstanding research contributing to the theory, practice, and teaching of effective health care communication and related skills in 2020 and the first Lynn Payer award for outstanding contributions to the literature on theory, practice, and teaching of effective health care communication and related skills in 2002.