What Lies Beneath: Implicit Bias in Healthcare - Part 1: What Is Implicit Bias?

In parallel to our conscious efforts to provide high-quality, equitable care to all patients, there’s something else going on: an unconscious tendency toward stereotyping people. How does this happen? When does it start? An expert explains.

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This is episode 1 of the series: What Lies Beneath: Implicit Bias in Healthcare

As much as we, as healthcare professionals, believe in and support the concept of equity in the care we provide, we are just as saddled with deeply embedded stereotypes as anyone else. We all carry implicit biases –learned but unconscious views about particular people. To provide better patient care and improve outcomes, we can learn to recognize and reduce our unintentional preconceptions.

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Series: What Lies Beneath: Implicit Bias in Healthcare