"It’s Not You, It’s Me": Preventing Bias in Personal, Professional, and Patient-Related Interactions

There is overwhelming evidence that conscious and unconscious bias impacts academic medical teaching environments at multiple levels.  This engaging audiovisual session will focus on exploring implicit and explicit bias while offering practical recommendations to mitigate their impacts in personal and professional interactions.

Target Audience

**Meets the faculty annual report goal for Implicit Bias Training**; All Learners

Learning Objectives

  • Define culture, cultural competency/humility, structural competency, and critical consciousness and discuss how these are relevant within academic medicine environments.
  • Review the relationships between cultural attitudes, bias, and stereotypes while examining how these impact personal and professional encounters.

  • Recognize how bias could potentially contribute to health disparities and develop personal strategies to achieve cultural humility in human interactions while improving the perceived quality of care.

  • Explore tools to perform self-reflection and ultimately combat bias.

Course summary
Available credit: 
  • 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
    The George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
  • 1.00 Completion
Course opens: 
04/14/2021
Course expires: 
12/31/2025
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Kenyon Railey, MD

Assistant Chief Diversity Officer, School of Medicine Office of Diversity & Inclusion, Duke University

Medical Director, Physician Assistant Program, Duke University

Physicians

The George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

 

The George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences designates this enduring activity for a maximum of 1.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Physician Assistants 

The National Commission on Certification of Physician Assistants (NCCPA) states that the AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™ are acceptable for continuing medical education requirements for recertification.

Other Health Care Professionals

A certificate of participation will be provided to other health care professionals for requesting credits in accordance with state nursing boards, specialty societies, or other professional associations.

Available Credit

  • 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
    The George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
  • 1.00 Completion
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