Oral

The four conclusions of this session are as follows: 1.Experiencing racial and ethnic discrimination at work is strongly linked to high unplanned job turnover across a diverse sample of practicing physicians in the United States 2.MDs, similar to others in society, with the exception of African American MDs, hold strong implicit pro-White attitudes 3.Perceived bias, discrimination, and mistrust may negatively influence how both patients and physicians engage in shared decision-making, and exacerbate existing racial disparities in the quality of patient/provider communication 4.Disclosure of CAM use can be improved through consistent provider relationships, better patient-physician communication, and quality of healthcare across racial/ethnic groups

Session Objectives: There are four objectives for this session. To: 1.Describe the prevalence of racial and ethnic discrimination experienced by practicing physicians 2.Measure physicians' attitudes about race by gender and race/ethnicity 3.Define shared decision-making (SDM) and describe racial disparities in SDM between African-Americans and whites 4.Describe factors that affect differences in disclosure of CAM use to medical providers