CME: How implicit bias and culture competence shape the patient healthcare experience
Activity Description / Statement of Need:
Cultural competence has been defined in a variety of ways. According to the CDC, cultural competence is a “set of congruent behaviors, attitudes, and policies that come together in a system, agency, or among professionals that enables effective work in cross-cultural situations.” In the setting of healthcare, practicing cultural competence can improve the ability of healthcare professionals (HCPs) to meet the social, cultural, and linguistic needs of patients, which may ultimately improve health outcomes among diverse groups of patients with unique sociocultural identities including race, ethnicity, gender, and sexual orientation.
These observations illustrate not only that there is a gap in care related to the incorporation of cultural sensitivity into health care in the US but also that there are available solutions, and HCPs and their patients stand to benefit from provision of continuing education to address those needs.
Target Audience:
Physicians, pharmacists, pharmacy technicians, physician assistants, nurse practitioners, and any other healthcare professionals with an interest in the topic.
This program is supported by educational grants from Amgen and Gilead.
This activity is free of charge.
Release Date: March 20, 2024 -- Expiration Date: March 19, 2026
Faculty: Marin Gillis, PhD, LPh
Agenda
- Kinds of Bias
- Cultural Competence
- Thinking and Reasoning
- Heruistics
- Attribution
- Profound Conceptual Conflict
- Failures in Perception and Biases
- Women’s Health
- Clinical Trails
- Race / Ethnicity
- LGBTQ+
- Disability
- Obesity
- Ethics
- Bias in Diagnosis
Learning Objectives
By the end of the session the participant will be able to:
- Define bias and identify different types of bias in medicine.
- Articulate examples of how bias makes an impact in education, research, clinical diagnosis, treatment decisions, and health outcomes.
- Recall challenges in healthcare encountered by patients of different populations, cultural backgrounds, and identities.
- Describe the professional ethical responsibility to mitigate bias and develop cultural humility.
- Develop strategies to address bias and practice respect for patients from all backgrounds.
Accreditation
ACCME Activity #202701416
ScientiaCME is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
Credit Designation: ScientiaCME designates this educational activity for a maximum of 1.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™ toward the AMA Physician's Recognition Award. Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
ABIM MOC Recognition Statement: Successful completion of this CME activity, which includes participation in the evaluation component, enables the participant to earn up to 1.5 MOC points in the American Board of Internal Medicine's (ABIM) Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program. It is the CME activity provider's responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit.
ABIM MOC Credit Type: Medical Knowledge
ABP MOC Recognition Statement: Successful completion of this CME activity, which includes participation in the evaluation component, enables the participant to earn up to 1.5 MOC points in the American Board of Pediatrics' (ABP) Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program. It is the CME activity provider's responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABP MOC credit.
ABP MOC Credit Type: Lifelong Learning and Self-Assessment
Physicians: For maintenance of certification (MOC) points, you must enter your board certification ID # and birth date correctly. It is the learner's responsibility to provide this information completely and accurately at the completion of the activity. Without providing it, the learner will NOT receive MOC points for this activity. By providing this data, you acknowledge that it will be shared with ACCME and the applicable certifying board. Please note: not all activities on this site provide MOC points. If this activity does not specify that it provides MOC points in this section, then it does NOT provide MOC points. This activity provides MOC points only for ABIM.
Pharmacists and Pharmacy Technicians
ScientiaCME is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE) as a provider of continuing pharmacy education. This activity is approved for 1.5 contact hours (0.15 CEUs) of continuing pharmacy education credit. Proof of participation will be posted to your NABP CPE profile within 4 to 6 weeks to participants who have successfully completed the post-test. Participants must participate in the entire presentation and complete the course evaluation to receive continuing pharmacy education credit. ACPE UANs: pharmacists: 0574-0000-24-007-H04-P; pharmacy technicians: 0574-0000-24-007-H04-T. This is a Knowledge (K)-type activity.
Nurse Practitioners (NPs): The American Academy of Nurse Practitioners accepts AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™ from organizations accredited by the ACCME. ScientiaCME will provide NPs who successfully complete each activity with a certificate of participation indicating that the activity was designated for AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™.
Physician Assistants: The American Academy of Physician Assistants accepts AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™ from organizations accredited by the ACCME.
Faculty Disclosure and Resolution of COI
As a provider of continuing medical education, it is the policy of ScientiaCME to ensure balance, independence, objectivity, and scientific rigor in all of its educational activities. In accordance with this policy, faculty and educational planners must disclose any significant relationships with commercial interests whose products or devices may be mentioned in faculty presentations, and any relationships with the commercial supporter of the activity. The intent of this disclosure is to provide the intended audience with information on which they can make their own judgments. Additionally, in the event a conflict of interest (COI) does exist, it is the policy of ScientiaCME to ensure that the COI is resolved in order to ensure the integrity of the CME activity. For this CME activity, any COI has been resolved thru content review ScientiaCME.
Faculty: Marin Gillis, PhD, LPh, Professor and Interim Chair, Department of Justice & Health Humanities, Roseman University of Health Sciences, College of Medicine, has no relevant financial disclosures.
Faculty WILL NOT discuss off-label use of a commercial product.
Disclosures of Educational Planners: Charles Turck, PharmD, BCPS, BCCCP, CEO of ScientiaCME, has no relevant financial disclosures.
Commercial Support Disclosure: This program is supported by educational grants from Amgen and Gilead.
Instructions
- Read the learning objectives above
- Take the Pre-Test (optional). Completion of the pre-test will help us evaluate the knowledge gained by participating in this CME activity.
- View the online activity. You may view this is in more than one session, and may pause or repeat any portion of the presentation if you need to.
- Minimum participation threshold: Take the post-test. A score of 70% or higher is required to pass and proceed to the activity evaluation.
- Complete the activity evaluation and CME registration. A CE certificate will be emailed to you immediately.
System Requirements
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Please take a few minutes to participate in the optional pre-test. It will help us measure the knowledge gained by participating in this activity.
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