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Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Training

Register for our upcoming 2024-2025 EDI Foundational Training courses below! The training is listed in 5 foundational sections and is generally encouraged to be taken in the listed numerical sequence. Two additional foundational trainings include Bystander Intervention 101 and the Equity Impact Review Tool workshop. These two additional courses are recommended to be taken once the five foundational are complete. Each training session requires a minimum of 10 attendees. We encourage you to sign up early.

DateTimeEDI Training CourseClick below to register
Dec 2310:00am-11:30amHistory of Race and Racism in Science and Medicine (2)Register for RACE Dec
Jan 710:30am-12:00pmBystander Intervention (6)Register for BYST Jan
Jan 1311:00am-12:30pmIdentity, Privilege, and Intersectionality (1) Register for ID Jan
Jan 211:30pm-3:00pmBias and Microaggressions (5)Register for BIAS Jan
Jan 222:30pm-4:00pmSocial Determinants of Health (4) Register for SDOH Jan
Jan 2710:00am-11:30amGender and Sexual Diversity (3)Register for GSD Jan
Jan 309:30am-11:00amHistory of Race and Racism in Science and Medicine (2)Register for RACE Jan
Feb 41:00pm-2:30pmIdentity, Privilege, and Intersectionality (1) Register for ID Feb 4
Feb 52:30pm-4:00pmHistory of Race and Racism in Science and Medicine (2)Register for ID Feb
Feb 79:30am-11:00amBystander Intervention (6)Register for BYST Feb
Feb 1111:00am-12:30pmSocial Determinants of Health (4)Register for SDOH Feb
Feb 191:00pm-2:30pmIdentity, Privilege, and Intersectionality (1) Register for ID Feb 19
Feb 2012:30pm-2:00pmGender and Sexual Diversity (3)Register for GSD Feb
Feb 2410:00am-11:30amBias and Microaggressions (5)Register for BIAS Feb 24
Mar 31:00pm-2:30pmEquity Impact Review Tool workshop (7)Register for EIRT Mar
Mar 109:30-11:00 amGender and Sexual Diversity (3)Register for GSD Mar
Mar 121:00pm-2:30pmSocial Determinants of Health (4)Register for SDOH Mar
Mar 172:00pm-3:30pmIdentity, Privilege, and Intersectionality (1)Register for ID Mar
Mar 262:30pm-4:00pmHistory of Race and Racism in Science and Medicine (2)Register for RACE Mar
Mar 3110:30am-12:00pmBystander Intervention (6)Register for BYST Mar
EDI Peer Trainer Program

For internal UW Medicine training requests from the Office of Healthcare Equity, please submit a request below. UW NetID required.

Training Request Form

For any other EDI training questions, please visit our contact us page.

Instructions for how to complete the Advancing EDI Training e-learning module if you can not access it from the UW Medicine Learning Hub.

EDI Foundational Training Program

In June 2020, as part of our UW Medicine response and call to action regarding racial injustice, our executive leadership pledged to become an anti-racist organization. This includes identifying and dismantling policies and practices that perpetuate structural racism, along with creating supportive, protected spaces for open, difficult dialogue about race, racism, and the impact of oppression, particularly on our Black staff, faculty, students, trainees, and patients. Completion of our foundational training sequence meets the EDI training requirements established by Washington State Senate Bill 5227 (for more information on SB5227, visit our FAQ).

The five key content areas and additional offerings

An essential step in our journey is education and training. In the pledge, made in 2020, we committed to requiring anti-racist training for all members of our UW Medicine community. To hold ourselves accountable and deliver on this commitment, we are training all members of the UW Medicine team in five key content areas.

Identity, Privilege, and Intersectionality

  1. Deepen awareness of the current state of racism and oppression in our society and at UW Medicine.
  2. Understand and describe your own and others social identities, intersectionalities, and privileges.
  3. Call to Action: Integrating these understandings into your personal and professional life.

History of Race and Racism in Medicine and Science

  1. Understand the way medicine/science has been used to create and further racism
  2. Understand the history of the creation of racial categories and hierarchy, particularly by physicians, and how that framework is still used in modern medicine
  3. Recognize race as a social and political construct
  4. Explain how and why race is not biological or genetic

Social Determinants of Health

  1. Define social determinants of health and health inequities
  2. Understand how social conditions influence health
  3. Describe elements of the Social Ecological Model and Life Course Model
  4. Explain the relationship between SDOH, racism and racial health inequities

Gender and Sexual Diversity

  1. Appreciate the range of gender diversity and variations in sexual identity.
  2. Recognize the importance of having both competence from the standpoint of medical knowledge as well as having a culturally informed approach with patients and/or colleagues with life experience and identities that differ from your own.
  3. Apply trauma-informed principles when providing medical care for patients and be aware that some have experienced trauma in healthcare settings.

Bias and Microaggressions

  1. Define key terms related to bias and microaggressions.​
  2. Explain how microaggressions are harmful and associated with bias.​
  3. Describe four psychological processes that fuel biased actions.​
  4. Describe helpful ways to respond to microaggressions based on my typical role in these incidents (as a leader, bystander, target, or offender).

* Bystander Intervention

  1. Describe why it is important to intervene when you observe an incident of identity-based harm.
  2. Identify the obstacles that may get in the way of intervening effectively.
  3. Learn and practice the five D’s of bystander intervention.

    *This course is available to community members who have completed our Foundational Training sequence.

Equity Impact Review Tool workshop

  1. Understand when and why to use the Equity Impact Review Tool.
  2. Identify decisions that are in front of you that require an equity context.
  3. Describe the six steps of an equity impact review.
  4. Practice the six steps of the Equity Impact Review Tool on live UW Medicine decisions.