Microaggressions in Medicine

Microaggressions are behaviors that stem from implicit bias and occur at an interpersonal level. In medicine, microaggressions may be encountered both in training clinical practice. Although often unintentional or unconscious by the offender, harmful to health safety of women underrepresented minority (URM) medical students, residents, physicians, other providers, patients. This article aims define microaggressions, present example scenarios, provide discourse regarding within framework medicine.