
Overcoming Implicit Bias in Healthcare (Pharmacists)

Overcoming Implicit Bias in Healthcare (Pharmacists) is organized by Connect Educate Impact (CEI).
Initial Release Date: February 10, 2022
Planned Expiration Date: February 10, 2025
Description:
Everyone has unconscious, or implicit, bias. When we better understand it, we can start to impact barriers to inclusion. This course discusses the implicit bias link to health inequities and helps healthcare professionals identify best practices for reducing implicit bias.
Upon successful completion of this knowledge-based CPE course, pharmacists should be able to:
• Define implicit bias and its impact on personal, interpersonal, institutional, structural, and cultural barriers to inclusion
• Identify best practices for reducing implicit bias at the interpersonal and institutional levels
• Assess the physical and mental effect of implicit bias and racial discrimination on the maternal and infant mortality rate in the United States of America
• Describe cultural identities of self and others as it pertains to effective cross cultural communication skills
• Describe racial, identity, cultural, and provider-community relations issues based on perspectives of diverse, local constituency groups and experts in the community
Additional details will be posted as soon as information is available.