Eliminating Explicit and Implicit Biases in Health Care: Evidence and Research Needs (1 credit hour)
Program Summary: This course explores explicit and implicit biases in health care and provides an overview of the terminology, the tools used to measure implicit bias, the evidence for implicit bias in health care, the impact of implicit bias in health care, the impact of interventions designed to reduce implicit bias, the key structural factors affecting implicit bias, and the relationship between implicit bias and structural inequities. The course suggests that implicit bias interventions alone are not enough to reduce biased decision making and health disparities and should be accompanied by other systemic changes.
This course is recommended for social workers and health care professionals and is appropriate for beginning and intermediate levels of practice.
Reading: Eliminating Explicit and Implicit Biases in Health Care: Evidence and Research Needs Authors: Monica B. Vela, Amarachi I. Erondu, Nichole A. Smith, Monica E. Peek, James N. Woodruff, and Marshall H. Chin Publisher: Annual Reviews
Course Objectives: To enhance professional practice, values, skills and knowledge by exploring implicit and explicit bias in health care.
Learning Objectives: Define implicit bias and explicit bias. Describe the impact of implicit bias in health care. Describe key structural factors affecting implicit biases. Identify interventions designed to reduce implicit bias and health inequities.
Review our pre-reading study guide.
Free State Social Work, LLC, provider #1235, is approved as an ACE provider to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Regulatory boards are the final authority on courses accepted for continuing education credit. ACE provider approval period: 9/6/2021 - 9/6/2024. Social workers completing this course receive 1 continuing education credit.
Free State Social Work has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP NO. 6605. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. Free State Social Work is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.
G.M. Rydberg-Cox, MSW, LSCSW is the Continuing Education Director at Free State Social Work and responsible for the development of this course. She received her Masters of Social Work in 1996 from the Jane Addams School of Social Work at the University of Illinois-Chicago and she has over 20 years of experience. She has lived and worked as a social worker in Chicago, Boston, and Kansas City. She has practiced for many years in the area of hospital/medical social work. The reading materials for this course were developed by another organization.
