Identifying and Innovating Around Implicit Bias in Medical Education

Chicago, IL US
November 21, 2019
This activity will provide practical experience for the participants in mitigating unconscious bias, emphasizing both awareness and action. They will review the impact of implicit bias in application review and candidate selection as well medical student assessment/evaluation within academic medicine, and strategies to minimize bias with goal of being able to provide improved care to our diverse patient population.

Target Audience

This activity is designed for GME program directors and selection committees, admissions committee leadership and members, others involved in reviewing applications and interviewing candidates, UME program and clerkship directors, medical education faculty and housestaff, and others involved in teaching and assessing medical students.

Learning Objectives

At the conclusion of this educational activity, participants will be able to:

  • Discuss the potential impact of implicit bias in healthcare
  • State how bias impacts assessment at the UME and GME level;
  • List two examples of how implicit bias can impact decision-making in reviewing applicants;
  • Identify different specific types of bias in assessment in medical education;
  • Describe the breadth of bias in assessment;
  • Develop possible approaches to reduce bias in assessment;
  • Discuss practical implicit bias mitigation strategies to increase diversity in medicine.
Additional information
ACGME/ABMS Core Competencies: 
Interpersonal and Communication Skills
Professionalism
For more information, please contact:
CME Coordinator Contact Name: 
Jill Kelly
CME Coordinator Contact Email: 
CME Coordinator Contact Phone: 
(773) 702-0290
Summary
Available credit: 
  • 3.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
  • 3.00 Participation
Event starts: 
11/21/2019 - 7:45am
Event ends: 
11/21/2019 - 11:30am
Activity opens: 
11/21/2019
Activity expires: 
02/21/2020

7:45 – 7:55         Welcome & Introduction                                          Barrett Fromme

7:55 - 8:05          Bias in Medicine: Overview                                      Monica Vela

8:05-8:15            Break

8:15-9:30            Group  1

  1. Implicit Bias in Healthcare and Academic

 Medicine:  Strategies to Mitigate Bias         Quinn Capers

  1. Considering Bias in Medical Education

 and Assessment                                               Adam Cifu

9:30-9:40            Break

9:40-10:55          Group 2

 
  1. Considering Bias in Medical Education

and Assessment                                                  Adam Cifu

  1. Implicit Bias in Healthcare and Academic

Medicine:  Strategies to Mitigate Bias            Quinn Capers

10:55-11:05       Break

11:05-11:30       Commitment to Change                                            Joel Jackson

Agenda subject to change.

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Chicago, IL 60637
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ACCESSIBILITY The University of Chicago is committed to providing equal access appropriate to need and circumstances and complies fully with legal requirements of the Americans with Disabilities Act. If you are in need of special accommodation, please contact Jill Kelly via email at [email protected].

The University of Chicago reserves the right to cancel or postpone this conference due to unforeseen circumstances. In the unlikely event this activity must be cancelled or postponed, the registration fee will be refunded; however, The University of Chicago is not responsible for any related costs, charges, or expenses to participants, including fees assessed by airline/travel/lodging agencies.

COURSE FACULTY
  H. Barrett Fromme, MD
  Professor of Pediatrics
  The University of Chicago
  
 
 
GUEST SPEAKER
  Quinn Capers, MD
  Professor of Medicine
  The Ohio State University
 
 
 
 
 

Disclosure Declarations
As a provider accredited by the ACCME, The University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine asks everyone who is in a position to control the content of an education activity to disclose all relevant financial relationships with any commercial interest. This includes any entity producing, marketing, re-selling, or distributing health care goods or services consumed by or used on patients. The ACCME defines “relevant financial relationships” as financial relationships in any amount occurring within the past 12 months, including financial relationships of a spouse or life partner that could create a conflict of interest. Mechanisms are in place to identify and resolve any potential conflict of interest prior to the start of the activity.

Additionally, The University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine requires authors to identify investigational products or off-label uses of products regulated by the US Food and Drug Administration, at first mention and where appropriate in the content.

 

Physician Credit
The University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
 
The University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine designates this live activity for a maximum of 3.00 AMA PRA Category 1 CreditsTM. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
 
Other Healthcare Professions Credit
Nurses and other healthcare professionals will receive a Certificate of Participation. For information on the applicability and acceptance of Certificates of Participation for educational activities certified for AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™ from organizations accredited by the ACCME, please consult your professional licensing board.
 
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