Primary Care Perspectives: Episode 38 - Role of Subconscious Racial Bias or Implicit Bias

Tiffani Johnson, MD, an expert in pediatric emergency care and ethnic health disparities, discusses subconscious racial bias and what impact it has in a healthcare setting. She talks about the difference between stereotypes and implicit bias, how subconscious bias can impact patient-provider communication as well as treatment decisions and disparities, ways to examine and explore your own unconscious biases, and more. Published August 2018.

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