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Social Determinants of Health (4) December 17th

Virtual Event

December 17 @ 10:00 am – 11:30 am

Course Objectives

  • Define social determinants of health and health inequities
  • Understand how social conditions influence health
  • Describe elements of the Social Ecological Model and Life Course Model
  • Explain the relationship between SDOH, racism and racial health inequities
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Reducing Weight Stigma & Bias in Healthcare- December 11th

Virtual Event

December 11 @ 1:30 pm – 3:00 pm


Building Inclusive and Affirming Interactions at UW Medicine

Reducing Weight Stigma and Bias in Healthcare – As part of UW Medicine’s ongoing efforts to reduce bias in healthcare, this new course explores bias related to body weight. Framed around patient stories, this course aims to increase empathy related to weight stigma by offering a better understand of the history of society’s relationship with weight, as well as explore contemporary research that challenges stereotypes in society about health and one’s body size. This course also focuses on skills we can use in healthcare to decrease bias and improve interactions with people related to their body. 

Objectives:
1. Increase empathy through adult patient stories related to weight stigma. 
2. Understand the history of society’s relationship with weight. 
3. Increase knowledge of recent research on weight’s impact on health, weight loss interventions, and the success at maintaining weight loss. 
4. Learn skills to decrease bias and improve interactions with people related to their body. 

All are welcome to this training.

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Gender and Sexual Diversity (3) December 5th

Virtual Event

December 5 @ 9:00 am – 10:30 am

Course Objectives

  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.
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Bystander Intervention (6) Dec 1st

Virtual Event

December 1 @ 10:30 am – 12:00 pm

Course Objectives

  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.
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History of Race and Racism in Science & Medicine (2) Oct 29th

Virtual Event

October 29 @ 10:00 am – 11:30 am

Course Objectives

  • Understand the way medicine/science has been used to create and further racism
  • Understand the history of the creation of racial categories and hierarchy, particularly by physicians, and how that framework is still used in modern medicine
  • Recognize race as a social and political construct
  • Explain how and why race is not biological or genetic
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Bias & Microaggressions (5) October 23rd

Virtual Event

October 23 @ 2:00 pm – 3:30 pm

Course Objectives

  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).
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Gender and Sexual Diversity (3) October 15th

Virtual Event

October 15 @ 2:30 pm – 4:00 pm

Course Objectives

  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.
Register via Zoom

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Bystander Intervention (6) October 14th

Virtual Event

October 14 @ 3:00 pm – 4:30 pm

Course Objectives

  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.
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Social Determinants of Health (4) October 13th

Virtual Event

October 13 @ 9:30 am – 11:00 am

Course Objectives

  • Define social determinants of health and health inequities
  • Understand how social conditions influence health
  • Describe elements of the Social Ecological Model and Life Course Model
  • Explain the relationship between SDOH, racism and racial health inequities
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Identity, Privilege, and Intersectionality (1) October 7th

Virtual Event

October 7 @ 11:30 am – 1:00 pm

Course Objectives

  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.
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