Addressing implicit bias
The challenge
Healthcare inequities
Recent years have shone a light on several marked disparities in quality of care between different racial, ethnic, and other demographic populations. For instance in the US, black adults are 32 % more likely to die from cardiovascular disease and 45 % more likely to die from stroke, and black women are three times more likely to die during birth than white women.
Although addressing these health disparities requires a multipronged systems-approach, an important part is to educate our current and future healthcare providers.
The opportunity
Increased diversity in training portfolio
To support this training in the best way, we have in recent years increased diversity in both race, gender and age in our digital and physical patient simulators and simulation scenarios.
We have also developed a free guide for how to use simulation-based training to reduce implicit bias and promote equitable care.
