TRENDING MEDICAL EDUCATION TOPIC: MICROAGRESSIONS AND BIASES IN HEALTH CARE DELIVERY

Mitigating the implicit bias of health providers is a strategy for addressing health disparities at the individual level as opposed to the systemic level.Bias needs to be understood and identified in the many aspects of healthcare, including bias towards patients, health providers, staff, and learners and methods found to address it. One such was to address bias is to investigate the phenomenon of microaggression in the healthcare setting as microaggressions can be understood as a manifestation of bias. Microaggressions can be categorized generally as casual debasements of a group, e.g. groups based on race, ethnicity, geography, LBGTQ+, disability, sex, and age.

Does your medical staff needs an update on Microagressions and Biases in healthcare delivery? Here are some of the learning objectives that our faculty can cover in a 1-hour CME lecture:

1. Identify cases of microaggression & cognitive bias in the healthcare setting, including patients, providers, staff, and learners.
2. Describe how microaggression and kinds of cognitive bias are associated with discrimination and structural inequities.
3. List two ways to address common perceived barriers to addressing microaggressions and implicit bias.

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