Click Here to Start California: Implicit Bias for Healthcare Providers

This will take you directly to the course content. Register or login when you reach the last chapter.

For Mail Order

If you prefer to take the course via mail order, select the PDF tab above and follow the written instructions.

Course Summary—California: Implicit Bias for Healthcare Providers

This course describes the influence of unconscious biases on the delivery of healthcare services in the United States. It describes personal, interpersonal, institutional, structural, and cultural barriers to inclusion and discusses power dynamics and organizational decision-making.

Information is provided about the effects of historical and contemporary exclusion and oppression of minority communities as well as corrective measures to decrease implicit bias in healthcare. The course discusses ways to improve communication across identities, including racial, ethnic, religious, and gender identities.

There is a discussion of health inequities within the perinatal care field, including the impact of implicit bias on maternal and infant health outcomes as well as information about reproductive justice. The course concludes with a discussion of programs and practices designed to remedy the effects of implicit bias in the patient care setting, in healthcare research, and in healthcare organizations.

Criteria for Successful Completion

Study the course material, achieve a score of 80% or higher on the post test (the post test can be repeated if a learner scores less than 80%), complete the course evaluation, and pay where required. No partial credit will be awarded.

Instructional Level

Introductory

Conflict of Interest / Commercial Support Disclosure

The planners and authors of this learning activity have declared no conflicts of interest, vested interest, or financial relationship that may influence the content of this activity. All information is provided fairly and without bias.

ATrain Education, Inc. received no outside financial or commercial support in the preparation, presentation, or implementation of this learning activity and has no affiliation with any company whose products or services are mentioned in this activity.