"IT’S Not You, IT’S Me": Preventing Bias in Personal, Professional, and Patient-related Interactions

"IT’S Not You, IT’S Me": Preventing Bias in Personal, Professional, and Patient-related Interactions is organized by The George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences (GWSMHS).

Course opens: 04/14/2021
Course expires: 12/31/2025

Overview :
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.

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.

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