Geriatric Social Work Education Consortium

Unconscious Bias for Healthcare Professionals

This webinar features guest speaker Gabriela Flores, Associate Vice Chancellor of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at Metropolitan Community College. Course objectives include:

  • The effects of unconscious bias in everyday interactions with students, colleagues, and team members.
  • How bias and the processes of the unconscious mind can impact critical decisions and results.
  • Examining where personal and structural unconscious biases may reside across an organization.
  • Applying strategies to correct and mitigate personal unconscious biases and practice more conscious awareness.

Cultural Humility

This webinar features guest speaker Gabriela Flores, Associate Vice Chancellor of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at Metropolitan Community College. Course objectives include:

  • Defining cultural humility as it relates to trauma and toxic stress.
  • How unconscious bias can affect the healing relationship between patients and families
  • Recognizing how you influence and are influenced by others.
  • Identifying how cultural humility and trauma informed care can promote reduction of health disparities.