Understanding the Relationship between Unconscious Bias and Microaggressive Behavior in the Healthcare Environment

Thursday, April 6, 2023, 12:00 AM - Monday, April 6, 2026, 12:00 AM

Patients from underrepresented groups in the United States can experience the effects of unintentional cognitive (unconscious) biases that derive from cultural stereotypes in ways that perpetuate health inequities. Unconscious bias can also affect healthcare professionals in many ways, including patient-clinician interactions, hiring and promotion, and their own interprofessional interactions. Providers need to understand how implicit biases and stereotypes are formed and know how to address and prevent bias and microaggressions that occur in the healthcare environment.

Release Date: April 6, 2023
Expiration Date: April 5, 2026
Estimated Time to Complete: 1 hour

1. Define implicit bias, microaggression, and stereotypes.
2. Describe how implicit biases and stereotypes are formed and the ways in which they impact everyday life experiences.
3. Examine your own biases and their effects on yourself and others.
4. Discuss strategies to mitigate unconscious bias.
5. Review mitigation strategies for addressing bias and microaggressions that occur in the healthcare environment.

Corewell Health providers*: $0

Providers not affiliated with Corewell Health: $30

*To register as an employee, you must be logged into the CME portal via the employee login.  If you do not see the "free" registration option, sign out and sign back in using the "Use your Beaumont Health ID" login option.  If you are an employee of legacy Spectrum Health, contact [email protected] for assistance with registering.

AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ (1.00 hours), AMA PRA Non-Physician (Attendance) (1.00 hours), APA Psychology CE (1.00 hours), Implicit Bias (1.00 hours), Nursing CE (ANCC) (1.00 hours), Pharmacist CE (ACPE) (1.00 hours), Pharmacy Technician CE (ACPE) (1.00 hours), Social Work CE (ASWB) (1.00 hours)

In support of improving patient care, Beaumont Health is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

 

Medicine CME: Beaumont Health designates this enduring activity for a maximum of 1.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™.  Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Nursing CE: Beaumont Health designates this activity for a maximum of 1.0 ANCC contact hour.  Nurses should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Pharmacy CE: Beaumont Health designates this activity for 1.0 ACPE contact hour. ACPE Universal Activity Number (UAN): JA4008259-0000-23-090-H99-P / JA4008259-0000-23-090-H99-T.  Pharmacists and pharmacy technicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.  Credit will be uploaded to the NABP CPE Monitor within 30 days after the activity completion. 

Psychology CE: Continuing Education (CE) credits for psychologists are provided through the co-sponsorship of the American Psychological Association (APA) Office of Continuing Education in Psychology (CEP). The APA CEP Office maintains responsibly for the content of the programs.

Social Work CE:  As a Jointly Accredited Organization, Beaumont Health is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved under this program. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. Beaumont Health maintains responsibility for this course. Social workers completing this course receive 1.0 continuing education credit.

Implicit Bias: This module meets the Michigan Licensing and Regulatory Affairs department requirements for training on implicit bias and provides 1 hour of implicit bias training.

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