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Michigan Mandatory: Implicit Bias Awareness
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Course Description
This course meets the Implicit Bias course requirement for Michigan.
Master the evidence-based strategies to recognize and mitigate implicit bias in your clinical practice with this comprehensive Illinois mandatory training. Healthcare professionals committed to equitable, patient-centered care will discover how unconscious associations shape critical clinical decisions—from triage and diagnostic reasoning to pain assessment and treatment recommendations—often perpetuating health disparities across racial, ethnic, gender, weight, disability, and age dimensions. This course examines over 1.5 million data points from healthcare bias research, revealing that implicit biases operate outside conscious awareness under the very conditions that define modern practice: cognitive load, time pressure, and clinical ambiguity. You'll gain practical, research-validated communication frameworks including RELATE, NURSE, and teach-back techniques, alongside organizational strategies to systematically reduce bias impact on patient outcomes. Through five progressive modules and integrated case studies specific to physical therapy, occupational therapy, and nursing contexts, you'll transform your understanding from theoretical awareness to actionable clinical competencies that improve care quality and health equity.
Michigan Mandatory: Implicit Bias Awareness
Additional Course Details
00:00 - Introduction
2:50 - Module 1: Foundational Concepts and Measurement Science
16:59 - Module 2: Clinical Impact
33:50 - Module 3: Communication Frameworks
46:40 - Module 4: Evidence-Based Mitigation Strategies
1:03:46 - Exam Review
- Define implicit bias and its relationship to dual-process cognitive theory
- Recognize the contextual factors that amplify implicit bias during patient encounters
- Identify how implicit bias contributes to disparities in healthcare delivery and outcomes
- Explain the distinctions between cultural competence and cultural humility in clinical practice
- Describe evidence-based strategies for reducing the impact of implicit bias on patient care
Personnel Disclosure:
Financial – Anne Osborn, PT, MPT is the member manager of Ridley Learning. She receives compensation for the authorship of this course.
Nonfinancial - no relevant nonfinancial relationship exists.
No relevant conflicts of interest exist for any member of the activity planning committee.
Intermediate
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