Course Description:
We need to understand that cultural competency and implicit bias in healthcare is very alive and thriving in all healthcare systems, albeit silently. While we as clinicians may go about our day-to-day practice, offering consultations and treatments without considering biases, the reality is, these biases are negatively influencing our decision-making process. This 2 hour course aims to help clinicians to not only understand the complexities of diversity, equity, inclusion issues impacted by cultural competency and implicit biases; but it also offers practical steps we can implement to address this very salient yet deleterious issue in healthcare.
Do we even realize we do this in normal healthcare practice? Why should we be aware of it? How can we practice without having these biases?
Let Dr. Aditi Mehra, DHS, OTR/L walk us through some tips to navigate and become aware of cultural competency and implicit bias. We as healthcare professionals can and should do better!
Dr. Mehra will cover:
- Define unconscious/implicit bias/cultural competency
- List the process of how implicit bias develops
- Recognize current research on implicit bias and cultural competency in the access to and delivery of health care services
- Identify how cultural competency and implicit bias influences interactions with co-workers and clients
- Identify intervention strategies to remedy the negative impact
- List the present consequences of cultural competency and implicit bias based on an individual’s characteristics
Methods of Instruction:
Online audio/video course
Course Instructor:
Dr. Aditi Mehra, DHS, OTR/L
Target Audience:
Physical Therapists, Physical Therapist Assistants, Occupational Therapists, Occupational Therapist Assistants and Athletic Trainers.
Educational Level:
Intermediate
Prerequisites:
None
Course Goals and Objectives:
At the completion of this course, participants should be able to:
- Differentiate between cultural competency and implicit bias
- Identify how bias is formed
- Differentiate between types of bias
- Recognize implicit bias awareness and training and its effectiveness in healthcare
- Differentiate between stigmatized groups and their characteristics/disparities/mitigation strategies
- Recognize the elements of impact of bias in healthcare
- Differentiate between examples of bias and the impact on clinical practice: affective/visceral, anchoring, premature closure, availability, confirmation, commission/action, omission/action, diagnostic momentum, Gambler’s Fallacy, overconfidence, Sutton’s Slip, and hindsight
- Recognize interventions to address implicit bias
- Identify self-monitoring, mindfulness, cultural/linguistic competence, and cultural humility and how it can affect the healthcare system
- Recognize predominant American values and assumptions
Criteria for Obtaining Continuing Education Credits:
A score of 70% or greater on the post-test
AdvantageCEUs.com is an AOTA Approved Provider of professional development. Course approval ID # 10419. This distance learning-independent course is offered at 0.2 CEUs, Intermediate level, OT Professional Issues. The assignment of AOTA CEUs does not imply endorsement of specific course content, products, or clinical procedures by the AOTA.