EDI Feedback

Seeking specific feedback on EDI helps identify areas for improvement, celebrate successes, and demonstrates a commitment to EDI. This is a sensitive area, it is important to signpost to students why you are asking for this, and where they can find support or feedback anonymously if they feel more comfortable.

 
 

Feedback from Students

Consider adding a single EDI question to your routine teaching feedback:

Was there anything in the content or delivery of this session that made you feel excluded, not valued or uncomfortable in any way?

or

Was there anything relating to EDI during the session that you feel could be improved?

If time allows consider adding a few more questions for more in-depth feedback:

Did you feel valued as a member of the group?

Did you feel comfortable sharing your perspectives even when they differed from others in the group?

Did you perceive any unconscious bias within the session?

Did you feel there was any risk of discrimination from the session?

Was the content sensitive to diversity of sexual identity, race, disability and nationality?

Or develop your own feedback assessment, tailored to your own setting and content.

Consider utilising additional third party data such as the GMC National Training Survey to view data on wellbeing and discimination.

Are you utilising data collected by third parties, such as the GMC survey, to inform your teaching practices?

 

Feedback from Facilitators

Below are some specific questions (SIM-EDI tool) developed for simulation facilitators by Eve Purdie. Read the full article here. Consider how you might use them or develop your own bespoke feedback mechanisms for facilitators/educators in your setting.

  1. What aspects of this scenario related to gender, race, sexuality, culture or power?

  2. Were there any missed opportunities to better incorporate, explore or address EDI?

  3. Were there any real or potential harms associated with the session e.g. stereotyping, microaggression? Why did this happen, how do we address/prevent from happening again?

  4. How do we mitigate our own biases/privileges?

  5. What are our action items for next session, what training/resources do we need.

 
The Power of Feedback

By reviewing feedback over time you can track your progress and the positive impact of your commitment to EDI. The collated feedback will also be great evidence for your portfolio and appraisal.