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Continuing Medical Education on Implicit Bias in Healthcare

Resources available to satisfy the Implicit Bias CME requirement for licensure

Pursuant to Policy 2021-04, the Massachusetts Board of Registration in Medicine requires that all applicants for initial physician licensure and licensees renewing physician licensure complete a one-time continuing medical education requirement of 2.00 credits on the topic of implicit bias in healthcare. Please see below a list of available courses, which will be updated when additional courses are made available.

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Free Courses

What’s Important: A Patient-Centered Approach to Contraceptive Counseling

Sponsors:  The PICCK Program at Boston Medical Center and Boston University School of Medicine

This is an online interactive course which is worth a total of 4.5 credits; if you take the entire course, you may attribute 2.0 credits towards Implicit Bias Training (this completes the IB requirement) and 2.5 credits towards the general CME requirement. 

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Unconscious Bias in Medicine

Sponsor: Stanford University School of Medicine       Credit hours: 1 hour

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Racial Differences in Prostate Cancer Outcomes: Promoting Equality by Improving Access to Care. 

Sponsor: Massachusetts Medical Society                    Credit hours: 0.75 hours

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Courses with Fees

Awareness To Action: Dismantling Bias in Maternal and Infant Healthcare™.

Sponsor: March of Dimes                               Credit hours: 2 hours           Course Fee: $50, self-paced e-learning

To purchase, please contact profed@marchofdimes.org

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From Bias to Belonging: Implicit Bias in Health Care

Sponsor: Korsi Consulting                               Credit hours: 2 hours          Course Fee: $200

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Recognizing and Responding to Implicit Bias

Sponsor:  Quality Interactions                        Credit hours: 1 hour            Course Fee:  $55

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Facing Change: Racial Equity in the Healthcare Workplace

Sponsor: Will Interactive                                  Credit hours: 1 hour         Course Fee: $38

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Date published: June 17, 2024
Last updated: January 13, 2025

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