解剖学的缺失面孔:对图谱和教科书图像中的表现差距的评估
Amy Beresheim1, David Zepeda2, Marissa Pharel2
1Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, Rush University, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
Anatomical sciences education
|May 2, 2024
概括
解剖学地图集主要包括浅色皮肤色调和男性,低于暗色皮肤和女性. 这项研究量化了医学教育材料中的表型多样性,以突出代表性差距.
科学领域:
- 医学教育 医学教育
- 人体解剖学 解剖学 解剖学
- 健康 公平 卫生 公平
背景情况:
- 医疗课程的代表性不足可能会使医疗保健不平等继续存在.
- 解剖图像是医学教育的基础.
- 教育材料中缺乏表型多样性可能会影响患者的护理.
研究的目的:
- 在解剖图谱和教科书中量化人类表型多样性的流行程度.
- 评估皮肤色调,性别,体型和年龄在职前医疗教育材料中的表现.
- 为评估改善解剖图像多样性的努力提供指标.
主要方法:
- 来自11个解剖学地图集/教科书 (2015-2020) 的5001张图像的系统视觉内容分析.
- 表型属性的量化,包括皮肤色调,性别,身体大小和年龄.
- 根据可量化的表型特征对图像进行分类.
主要成果:
- 解剖图像主要描绘的是浅色皮肤 (81.2%),男性 (61.6%),中等体型和年轻到中年成人.
- 在所有图像类型中都观察到男性偏见,较深的肤色代表性不足.
- 虽然大多数图像都缺乏可编码的体型或年龄,但描绘的成年人主要是较小或中等大小的.
结论:
- 目前的解剖学教材显示,表型多样性显著不足.
- 这些发现强调了在医学教育中需要更具包容性的解剖图像.
- 本研究提供了基线数据,以监测和解决未来出版物中的代表性不平等问题.
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