
Identifying and Innovating Around Implicit Bias in Medical Education
Target Audience
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.
- 3.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
- 3.00 Participation
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
- Implicit Bias in Healthcare and Academic
Medicine: Strategies to Mitigate Bias Quinn Capers
- Considering Bias in Medical Education
and Assessment Adam Cifu
9:30-9:40 Break
9:40-10:55 Group 2
- Considering Bias in Medical Education
and Assessment Adam Cifu
- 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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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.
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.
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