10/18 Introduction to Unconscious Bias in Academic Medicine
Introduction to Unconscious Bias in Academic Medicine
Audience: Incoming SMPH graduate, post-doc and professional graduate students
Thursday, 10/18/18, 7:30-8:30 a.m. or
Thursday, 11/29/18, 12:00-1:00 p.m.
This 1 hour course is an introduction to the concept of unconscious bias that combines fundamental psychological approaches with classical diversity approaches.
Core Objectives for Participants
- Examine your own background and identities in order to interact more authentically with colleagues, patients and the community.
- Explore how the brain functions so that you can recognize unconscious bias as a natural function of the human mind.
- Expose patterns of unconscious bias in order to navigate impact on decision-making processes.
- Identify organizational leverage points in order to mitigate the impact of unconscious bias in interactions, processes and structures.
- Get an introduction to strategies and tools to create transformational systematic change