Bias in healthcare delivery leads to worse patient care and patient outcomes. Advancing Health Equity: A Guide for Reducing Bias in Healthcare provides you an interactive bias training that teaches skills applicable to addressing enhanced public health guidelines and approaching the work of health equity.
The racial and ethnic makeup of the United States is constantly shifting, and more specifically, becoming more diverse. Such changes require a more health equity-focused workforce and health equity-minded leadership. Bias training plays an essential role in leadership development, and it’s become imperative for all healthcare workers to recognize the foundational connection between biases and health care management and policy.
This course is designed to challenge your awareness, values, and actions on implicit and unconscious bias, and is intended to guide individuals hoping to contribute to this work in a healthcare context. The following core concepts form the basis of instruction and together offer an introductory perspective on this pressing topic: 1.) Community Orientation; 2.) Organizational Awareness; 3.) Professionalism; 4.) Accountability, Change Leadership, and Strategic Orientation.
An interactive 360-video experience allows you to engage in healthcare situations that center bias on multiple levels of our healthcare delivery systems. You will be prompted to consider multiple perspectives and roles, and use empathy to analyze bias and take action.
Community Orientation is the ability to align one’s own and the organization’s priorities with the needs and values of the community, including its cultural and ethnocentric values and to move health forward in line with population-based wellness needs and national health agenda.
Community Orientation and Learning Objectives•5 minutes
What's at Stake? •12 minutes
Types of Biases•9 minutes
Biases are Rooted in Evidence•9 minutes
Health Disparities•5 minutes
Health Equity is Personal & Defining Health Equity•13 minutes
Case Study Introduction: Baby Holloway•2 minutes
Reflective Response: Baby Holloway Case•3 minutes
7 readings•Total 111 minutes
Course Syllabus•4 minutes
Pre-Course Survey•10 minutes
Acknowledgements•5 minutes
Articles: Greenwald and McCartney, Et al. •55 minutes
Implicit Association Test (IAT)•30 minutes
Case Study Content Warning•2 minutes
Case Study: Baby Holloway•5 minutes
1 assignment•Total 10 minutes
Module 1 Quiz•10 minutes
1 discussion prompt•Total 10 minutes
Baby Holloway•10 minutes
Organizational Awareness
Module 2•3 hours to complete
Module details
Organizational Awareness is ability to understand and learn the formal and informal decision-making structures and power relationships in an organization or industry (e.g., stakeholders, suppliers). This includes the ability to identify who the real decision makers are and the individuals who can influence them, and to predict how new events will affect individuals and groups within the organization.
Organizational Awareness and Learning Objectives•2 minutes
What's at Stake? Community Orientation Review •7 minutes
Power and Leadership •11 minutes
Moving Towards Individuality-Values•8 minutes
Case Study Introduction: Language Barrier•2 minutes
Reflective Response: Language Barrier Case•3 minutes
5 readings•Total 88 minutes
Articles: Carter-Pokras & Marmot•25 minutes
Article: Iton•10 minutes
Rokeach Value Survey (RVS)•30 minutes
Article: BudzÍnski •20 minutes
Case Study: Language Barrier•3 minutes
1 assignment•Total 10 minutes
Module 2 Quiz•10 minutes
2 discussion prompts•Total 32 minutes
Rokeach Value Survey Discussion•30 minutes
Case Study: Language Barrier•2 minutes
Professionalism
Module 3•3 hours to complete
Module details
Professionalism is the demonstration of ethics, sound professional practices, social accountability, and community stewardship; the desire to act in a way that is consistent with one’s values and what one says is important.
Reflective Response: Gender Name Calling Case •1 minute
6 readings•Total 68 minutes
Articles: Catalyst & Dovidio•14 minutes
Article: Sue•16 minutes
CAREN Act•6 minutes
Conflict Styles Assessment (CSA)•20 minutes
Case Study: Gender Name Calling•2 minutes
Post-Experience Survey Opportunity•10 minutes
1 assignment•Total 10 minutes
Module 3 Quiz•10 minutes
1 app item•Total 30 minutes
⭐Interactive Experience: Gender Name Calling•30 minutes
1 discussion prompt•Total 20 minutes
Gender Name Calling•20 minutes
Special Topics: Accountability, Change Leadership, and Strategic Orientation
Module 4•2 hours to complete
Module details
Accountability is our ability to hold people accountable to standards of performance; Change Leadership is to influence people towards the achievement of a set of goals; and Strategic Orientation is to consider implications of decisions in strategic ways that continually improve organizational long-term success.
The mission of the University of Michigan is to serve the people of Michigan and the world through preeminence in creating, communicating, preserving and applying knowledge, art, and academic values, and in developing leaders and citizens who will challenge the present and enrich the future.
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