Pursuant to Policy 2021-04, the Massachusetts Board of Registration in Medicine requires all applicants for initial physician licensure and licensees renewing physician licensure complete a continuing medical education requirement of 2.00 credits on the topic of implicit bias in healthcare.
The Board has compiled a list of available courses for earning the required CME credits:
Additional Resources
BORIM recognizes the importance of eliminating racial and ethnic inequities that lead to health disparities in Massachusetts. Implicit bias among health care providers is one factor that perpetuates these disparities. Below you will find links to additional resources on the topic of implicit bias in healthcare:
Implicit Racial/Ethnic Bias Among Health Care Professionals and Its Influence on Health Care Outcomes: A Systematic Review
American Journal of Public Health (AJPH) December 2015
William J. Hall PhD, Mimi V. Chapman PhD, Kent M. Lee MS, Yesenia M. Merino MPH, Tainayah W. Thomas MPH, B. Keith Payne PhD, Eugenia Eng DrPH, Steven H. Day MCP, Tamera Coyne-Beasley MD
Accepted: September 05, 2015 Published Online: November 06, 2015
https://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/10.2105/AJPH.2015.302903
How Implicit Bias Harms Patient Care
Medical Economics Journal, December 10, 2019 Edition, Volume 96, Issue 23
Jeff Bendix
https://www.medicaleconomics.com/view/how-implicit-bias-harms-patient-care
Implicit Bias Resources
The EveryOne Project, American Academy of Family Physicians
https://www.aafp.org/family-physician/patient-care/the-everyone-project/toolkit/implicit-bias.html
The Effects of Oncologist Implicit Racial Bias in Racially Discordant Oncology Interactions
Journal of Clinical Oncology, Vol. 34, No. 24, August 20, 2016
Louis A. Penner , John F. Dovidio , Richard Gonzalez , Terrance L. Albrecht , Robert Chapman , Tanina Foster, Felicity W.K. Harper, Nao Hagiwara, Lauren M. Hame , Anthony F. Shields, Shirish Gadgeel, Michael S. Simon, Jennifer J. Griggs, Susan Eggly
https://ascopubs.org/doi/10.1200/JCO.2015.66.3658
Racial bias in pain assessment and treatment recommendations, and false beliefs about biological differences between blacks and whites
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, April 4, 2016, 113 (16) 4296-4301
Kelly M. Hoffman. Sophie Trawalter, Jordan R. Axt, M. Norman Oliver
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1516047113
Racial Disparities in Reported Prenatal Care Advice from Health Care Providers
Am J Public Health. 1994 January; 84(1): 82–88.
M D Kogan, M Kotelchuck, G R Alexander, and W E Johnson
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1614898/