This course is designed for pharmacists, nurse practitioners or other health care professionals involved in the comprehensive medication management of psychiatric and/or neurological patients.
Session Summary
“Implicit Bias” refers to unconscious associations, either positive or negative, that occur outside of our awareness and conscious control. While occurring outside of our awareness, they can influence behavior. Thus, well-intentioned people can unknowingly behave in discriminatory ways. Implicit biases have been shown to be associated with discrimination in the education, criminal justice, and health care systems. We will explore all of these, discuss the genesis of our biases and the impact of these biases, especially in healthcare. Finally, we will discuss strategies to reduce our implicit biases or at least the impact of such biases.
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This course will be provided at the CPNP 2019 Annual Meeting, April 7-10, 2019. Upon successful completion, ACPE credit is reported immediately to CPE Monitor although transcripts can be retrieved by participants online at https://aapp.org/mycpnp/transcript/acpe.
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Quinn Capers, IV, MD, FACC
Associate Dean of Admissions
The Ohio State University School of Medicine
Columbus, Ohio
Dr. Quinn Capers, IV is an interventional cardiologist, medical educator, and associate dean for admissions in The OSU College of Medicine. Clinically, he is the Director of the Interventional Cardiology Fellowship Training Program and an associate professor in the division of cardiovascular medicine. He has personally performed over 4,000 coronary stent procedures, many in heart attack patients, and is an expert at performing these procedures through the radial artery in the patient’s wrist. His physician peers have named him one of America’s “Best Doctors” annually from 2009 to 2018, and his patient satisfaction scores placed in the 90th percentile nationally in four of the last five years.
He is a passionate advocate for diversity enhancement in medicine as a strategy to reduce healthcare disparities, and was instrumental in a dramatic turnaround in the diversity of The Ohio State University’s cardiology fellowship training program. The program had not trained a single African American heart doctor prior to 2007 but is now considered one of the most diverse cardiology fellowship training programs in the country. In 2017 he joined with other Black male physicians on Twitter to co-found and launch “#BlackMenInMedicine”, a campaign to flood social media (initially Twitter) with images of Black male physicians. The goals are to inspire Black men and others to enter the field of medicine, to change the narrative about the image of black men, and to speak out against injustice. The hashtag boasted over 5 million impressions in its first two days.
Serving as admissions dean in the College of Medicine since 2009, Dr. Capers has led his team to achieve the following: 1) an increase in total applications from 4,000 to over 7,000; 2) an increase in women matriculates such that for the first time in the College’s 102 year history, women outnumbered men in each of the last five entering classes; 3) an increase in the percentage of underrepresented minority (URM) students in the entering class to a high of 26% ( compared to a national average of 13%), making OSU one of the most diverse majority medical schools in the country; and 4) an increase in the average Medical College Admissions Test score of the entering class to a high point of the 94th percentile. He has published several articles on interventional cardiology procedures, healthcare disparities, and diversity enhancement in medicine. His recent study documenting the presence and extent of unconscious racial bias in medical school admissions ranks in the top 5% of all research outputs scored by AltmetricA trained moderator of implicit bias workshops, Dr. Capers has led workshops that collectively have trained over 1,000 physicians and healthcare providers in strategies to reduce implicit bias, and speaks widely on the topic of implicit racial and gender bias in medicine and healthcare.
A Dayton, Ohio native, Dr. Capers graduated with honors from Howard University before obtaining his MD from The Ohio State University. He completed his residency in internal medicine and fellowships in vascular biology research, cardiovascular medicine, and interventional cardiology all at Emory University in Atlanta. Capers and his wife, Cheryl, are the proud parents of three children.
Faculty Disclosures
Presentation will include discussion of off-label, experimental, and/or investigational use of drugs or devices: None
No relevant financial relationships to disclose.
All relevant relationships have been mitigated.
Learning Objectives
Define implicit bias and its difference from explicit biases.
Discuss examples of implicit bias in healthcare and potential impact on the provider-patient interaction.
Discuss research-proven strategies to reduce implicit bias (or its impact).
Continuing Education Credit and Disclosures
Activity Date: 04/08/2019 ACPE Contact Hours: 1 ACPE Number: 0284-0000-19-014-L04-P (Knowledge) Nursing Credit Reminder: Note that ACPE credit is accepted for certification renewal.
The College of Psychiatric and Neurologic Pharmacists is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education as a provider of continuing pharmacy education. This course provides 1.0 contact hour of knowledge-based continuing education credit from CPNP approved programming.
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