Trainees (Residents & Fellows)

Reducing Weight Stigma & Bias in Healthcare-March 17th

Virtual Event

March 17, 2026 @ 2:30 pm – 4:00 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.

Register via Zoom

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Reducing Weight Stigma & Bias in Healthcare-January 21st

Virtual Event

January 21, 2026 @ 2:00 pm – 3:30 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.

Register via Zoom

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Pronoun Competency Training – January 20th

Virtual Event

January 20, 2026 @ 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm

Objective
Building Inclusive and Affirming Interactions at UW Medicine

Using individuals’ pronouns is fundamental to respectful, inclusive, and affirming interactions across UW Medicine, with our colleagues, students, and patients.  Many of our community members make mistakes at times, are corrected, and genuinely apologize.  However, to truly improve, we need structured and supportive opportunities to practice. These opportunities are not typically available in our day-to-day interactions.

This monthly training series provides ongoing opportunities to practice and receive feedback from experts and supportive colleagues to improve pronoun competency. Remember, practice makes perfect and you may attend these sessions as often as you would like. Registration for each group is capped at 20 to allow for individualized practice and feedback. The goal is to foster inclusion and belonging for every member of our UW Medicine community, with emphasis on supporting those who do not use he/his or she/her pronouns.

Register via Zoom

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Health in Action Summit 2025: Thriving Together for Inclusive and Lasting Health

November 5 @ 8:30 am – 12:00 pm

Event Description: Join the Bree Collaborative at the Foundation for Health Care Quality for our Health in Action Summit! Together, we’ll explore what it means to thrive as a community—through systems and strategies that support inclusive and lasting health for all. As the health landscape continues to evolve, this summit will highlight how members across our sector—clinicians, health plans, purchasers, state agencies, and others—are actively adapting to meet current challenges while advancing better outcomes for the people they serve. We’ll take a deep dive into complex and emerging issues and examine how they are being addressed in ways that promote inclusive health and respond to the needs of those most impacted.

Keynote Presentation: Striving for Digital Health Equity–Understanding AI Bias in Care
 by Dr. Jorge A. Rodriguez -Clinician-investigator, Brigham and Women’s Hospital; Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School

Featured Presentations

  • ​”Say This, Not That” presentation on evolving vocabulary in inclusive health 
  • Panel Presentation on State of Inclusive Health in Washington State
  • ​Access to care among immigrant Latinos in WA state: a changing landscape
  • Climate Changes Health

CME: Individuals who attend the live webinar event are eligible to receive a maximum of 3.0 CME credits. CME credits are at no cost. 

The WSMA designates this live activity for a maximum of 3 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™.  

Location: Virtual

Contact: Latino Center for Health (email: latcntr@uw.edu)

Free

Foundation for Healthcare Quality

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OHCE Deeper Dive Discussions: Social Determinants of Health – December 22nd

Virtual Event

December 22 @ 9:00 am – 10:00 am

The Office of Healthcare Equity is pleased to share our newest training and education opportunity. You are invited to sign up for our Deeper Dive Discussions.

We are looking for UW Medicine community members to help us pilot and provide feedback on these discussions, as we prepare to go live with this program early next year.   

Sessions are one hour long, led by a pair of trained facilitators, with a maximum of 20 participants. To prepare for this discussion, all participants are asked to review a 30-minute e-learning didactic presentation of the foundational training topic in focus. The eLearning module link will be included in the registration confirmation.

Register via Zoom

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OHCE Deeper Dive Discussions: History of Race and Racism in Science & Medicine – December 8th

Virtual Event

December 8 @ 10:00 am – 11:00 am

The Office of Healthcare Equity is pleased to share our newest training and education opportunity. You are invited to sign up for our Deeper Dive Discussions.

We are looking for UW Medicine community members to help us pilot and provide feedback on these discussions, as we prepare to go live with this program early next year.   

Sessions are one hour long, led by a pair of trained facilitators, with a maximum of 20 participants. To prepare for this discussion, all participants are asked to review a 30-minute e-learning didactic presentation of the foundational training topic in focus. The eLearning module link will be included in the registration confirmation.

Register via Zoom

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OHCE Deeper Dive Discussions: Identity, Privilege & Intersectionality – December 5th

Virtual Event

December 5 @ 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm

The Office of Healthcare Equity is pleased to share our newest training and education opportunity. You are invited to sign up for our Deeper Dive Discussions.

We are looking for UW Medicine community members to help us pilot and provide feedback on these discussions, as we prepare to go live with this program early next year.   

Sessions are one hour long, led by a pair of trained facilitators, with a maximum of 20 participants. To prepare for this discussion, all participants are asked to review a 30-minute e-learning didactic presentation of the foundational training topic in focus. The eLearning module link will be included in the registration confirmation.

Register via Zoom

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OHCE Deeper Dive Discussions: Identity, Privilege & Intersectionality – November 25th

Virtual Event

November 25 @ 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm

The Office of Healthcare Equity is pleased to share our newest training and education opportunity. You are invited to sign up for our Deeper Dive Discussions.

We are looking for UW Medicine community members to help us pilot and provide feedback on these discussions, as we prepare to go live with this program early next year.   

Sessions are one hour long, led by a pair of trained facilitators, with a maximum of 20 participants. To prepare for this discussion, all participants are asked to review a 30-minute e-learning didactic presentation of the foundational training topic in focus. The eLearning module link will be included in the registration confirmation.

Register via Zoom

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OHCE Deeper Dive Discussions: Bias & Microaggressions – November 20th

Virtual Event

November 20 @ 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm

The Office of Healthcare Equity is pleased to share our newest training and education opportunity. You are invited to sign up for our Deeper Dive Discussions.

We are looking for UW Medicine community members to help us pilot and provide feedback on these discussions, as we prepare to go live with this program early next year.   

Sessions are one hour long, led by a pair of trained facilitators, with a maximum of 20 participants. To prepare for this discussion, all participants are asked to review a 30-minute e-learning didactic presentation of the foundational training topic in focus. The eLearning module link will be included in the registration confirmation.

Register via Zoom

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OHCE Deeper Dive Discussions: Gender & Sexual Identity – November 10th

Virtual Event

November 10 @ 10:00 am – 11:00 am

The Office of Healthcare Equity is pleased to share our newest training and education opportunity. You are invited to sign up for our Deeper Dive Discussions.

We are looking for UW Medicine community members to help us pilot and provide feedback on these discussions, as we prepare to go live with this program early next year.   

Sessions are one hour long, led by a pair of trained facilitators, with a maximum of 20 participants. To prepare for this discussion, all participants are asked to review a 30-minute e-learning didactic presentation of the foundational training topic in focus. The eLearning module link will be included in the registration confirmation.

Register via Zoom

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