Pharmacist Compliance Written 1.5 credit hours

Promoting diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging is essential to advancing equitable healthcare delivery and professional collaboration. This course offers an in-depth exploration of social identity mapping and implicit bias interventions, emphasizing practical strategies to recognize and mitigate bias within healthcare and educational environments. You will gain the knowledge and tools to foster empathy, enhance cultural awareness, and contribute to an inclusive, patient-centered pharmacy practice that advances health equity.

Learning Objectives

Upon successful completion of this application-based CPE course, pharmacists should be able to:
1. Review the core concepts of diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging.
2. Identify how a sense of belonging influences success and collaboration within healthcare teams.
3. Describe how implicit biases are formed and their potential effects on behavior.
4. Explain the purpose of social identity mapping and its role in fostering empathy and inclusion.
5. Recognize how personal social identities and biases can influence interactions with patients, students, residents, and colleagues.
6. Discuss strategies to reduce implicit bias, promote culturally responsive care, and advance health equity.
7. Define attributes of allyship and behaviors that support recovery from professional missteps.
8. Implement strategies to mitigate implicit bias in case scenarios encountered by pharmacy teams and preceptors.

Faculty

Sally Arif, PharmD, BCCP

Professor of Pharmacy Practice
Midwestern University College of Pharmacy

Disclosures:

Sally Arif has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies to disclose.

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