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Implicit and Explicit Bias Reduction Training in Healthcare
This implicit and explicit bias reduction training for healthcare professionals goes beyond awareness to address the clinical skills that matter most: recognizing bias in real time, applying individualized assessment frameworks, and communicating equitably with patients who have experienced biased care. With focused coverage of racial disparities in perinatal outcomes and the management of racialized conditions including sickle cell disease, this course meets state-mandated bias reduction training requirements across multiple U.S. states.
Racial bias, both conscious and unconscious, shapes clinical decisions, patient interactions, and health outcomes in ways that are well-documented and measurable. This course provides a comprehensive examination of how implicit and explicit bias operate in healthcare settings, exploring the historical roots of race-based medicine, the mechanisms of bias in clinical encounters, and the evidence on racial disparities in diagnosis, treatment, and patient outcomes. Learners will examine how provider assumptions drive inequitable care across a range of conditions, with particular attention to bias in perinatal care, including its role in the racial gap in maternal morbidity and mortality, and the management of sickle cell disease and other conditions that are frequently racialized in clinical practice. Practical frameworks for individualized patient assessment, equitable communication, and restoring rapport after bias has impacted an encounter are woven throughout. Designed to meet implicit and explicit bias reduction training requirements for healthcare license renewal across multiple U.S. states, this course moves beyond awareness to build the clinical skills needed for meaningful, lasting change.
At the completion of this activity, healthcare providers will be able to:
- Distinguish between implicit and explicit bias as they operate in clinical decision-making and patient interactions.
- Explain how racial bias affects care quality during pregnancy, labor and delivery, and the postpartum period, contributing to maternal morbidity and mortality disparities.
- Identify clinical scenarios in which race-based assumptions inappropriately substitute for individualized patient assessment.
- Apply evidence-based, individualized assessment strategies to reduce the influence of implicit and explicit bias in the clinical management of sickle cell disease and other racialized conditions.
- Evaluate personal and systemic factors that contribute to bias within the interprofessional healthcare team.
- Select bias reduction and communication strategies to promote equitable, patient-centered interactions across diverse patient populations.
- Apply techniques for restoring patient rapport when bias has impacted a clinical encounter.
At the completion of this activity, assistants, aides, support staff, and pharmacy technicians will be able to:
- Define implicit and explicit bias and explain how they differ.
- Identify ways that bias can affect patient interactions and care delivery in clinical and support roles.
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Accreditations
This course has been reviewed and approved through the rigorous standards of leading accrediting organizations, ensuring your continuing education credits are formally recognized and respected across professions and states.
ACCME
Accredited for physician continuing medical education
ACPE
Accredited for pharmacy continuing education
ANCC
Accredited for nursing continuing education
APA
Accredited for psychology continuing education
ASWB
Accredited for social work continuing education
Additional Information
- Automatic reporting to CE Broker for participating states
- Instant certificate generation upon course completion
- Credits accepted for license renewal
- Meets state requirements for continuing education
Course Faculty
Learn from leading experts who bring their real-world experience and evidence-based practices to this comprehensive training.
Tong Liu
Tong is a licensed board-certified family medicine physician with a background in gynecology. She spends her time as a cartoonist, certified life coach, writer and speaker. She is passionate about projects related to holistic wellness, mental health, social justice, women's reproductive health and comprehensive sex education.
Karon A. Hopkins
Karon is a Licensed Independent Social Worker with 10 years of experience in addiction rehabilitation and is certified as both a clinical trauma specialist and a clinical supervisor in addiction counseling. His clinical experience areas include Addiction, anxiety, co-dependency depression, grief, relationship issues, and trauma.
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Partners requires every individual in a position to control educational content to disclose all financial relationships with ineligible companies that have occurred within the past 24 months. Ineligible companies are organizations whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients.
All relevant financial relationships for anyone with the ability to control the content of this educational activity are listed below and have been mitigated according to Partners policies. Others involved in the planning of this activity have no relevant financial relationships.
- Tong Liu, MD, Ph.D.
• has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies to disclose - Karon Hopkins, LISW-CP, ACSW, CS, CCTP
• has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies to disclose
Disclosure of Unlabeled Use
This educational activity may contain discussion of published and/or investigational uses of agents that are not indicated by the FDA. The planners of this activity do not recommend the use of any agent outside of the labeled indications.
The opinions expressed in the educational activity are those of the faculty and do not necessarily represent the views of the planners. Please refer to the official prescribing information for each product for discussion of approved indications, contraindications, and warnings.AI Use Disclosure
Artificial intelligence (AI) tools were used in the development of this activity’s educational content. Specifically, Gamma was used on 8/17/26-8/20/26 to assist with slide generation and design. All AI-assisted content including slides/written materials was reviewed and verified for accuracy, balance, and freedom from commercial influence by Nicole Good and Phoebe Masallo-Caballo, Premiere Content Development Team, before being provided to learners.
Disclaimer
Participants have an implied responsibility to use the newly acquired information to enhance patient outcomes and their own professional development. The information presented in this activity is not meant to serve as a guideline for patient management. Any procedures, medications, or other courses of diagnosis or treatment discussed or suggested in this activity should not be used by clinicians without evaluation of their patient’s conditions and possible contraindications and/or dangers in use, review of any applicable manufacturer’s product information, and comparison with recommendations of other authorities.
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Combined 27+ years of direct patient care experience with diverse HIV populations in various healthcare settings.
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Strong advocates for patient-centered care and have worked extensively with HIV advocacy organizations.
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This course meets your continuing education requirements across multiple states and professions, ensuring you stay compliant with the latest regulations.
Requirements
This course is regularly updated to ensure compliance with current state and federal requirements.
Accreditations
ACCME
Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education
ACPE
Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education
ANCC
American Nurses Credentialing Center
APA
American Psychological Association
ASWB
Association of Social Work Boards
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