Racial Health Equity in Patient Care

Racial Health Equity in
Patient Care

Health Care Crisis and
COVID-19 Contexts

About this Project

The current pandemic is exacerbating major racial inequities in health care. The Preventing Racial and Ethnic Biases During Pandemics and Other Healthcare Crises course is intended to empower health care personnel to interrupt racial bias and protect patients from racism. The interactive training explores tools to provide high-quality, unbiased care for all patients during events that cause extreme demands on our health care system, like the COVID-19 pandemic.

To optimize learning, we will offer three audience-specific versions of the course for physicians, nurses, and nonclinical staff with patient contact.

This course will be available free of charge through the generous support of the California Health Care Foundation.

Racial Health Equity in Patient Care Course

Racial Health Equity in Patient Care Course

Start learning today with our interactive eLearning course focused on interrupting racial bias during COVID-19 and other events that cause extreme demands on the healthcare system.

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Frequently Asked Questions

What resources will be available?

This project will create an online training course focused on Racial Health Equity in Patient Care. This course will be 20 minutes in duration and be available for both individuals and organizations to complete.

To maximize learning, there are three versions of this training course in development.

The physician-focused version of the course will be available in mid-May 2021
The nurse-focused version of the course will be available summer 2021
The front-line staff version of the course will be available summer 2021

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How can individuals complete the online training course?

Individuals will have free open access through Diversity Science Academy. They will receive a printable Certificate of Completion and an email documenting their achievement. This option is open to anyone, anywhere.

How can organizations provide the training course to their staff?

Healthcare organizations will have three options:

1. Organizations that have an existing LMS for e-Learning delivery may prefer to access the e-Learning modules in SCORM (Shareable Content Object Reference Model) and xAPI formats. These formats are compatible with the vast majority of LMS. After signing a user agreement (the organization will not charge for access to the e-learning nor will they use any part of the e-learning in a product for sale).
  How Will We Track Completion?
  Organizations will independently track learner progress.
  What does this cost?
  This option is free to any organization.
2. Organizations may wish to have their employees complete the e-Learning experience on the diversityscienceacademy.org learning platform.
  How Will We Track Completion?
  There are two options:
  - i) Ask employees to self-register and, after successful completion of the course, provide you with a copy of their printable electronic Certificate of Completion.
  - ii) You may prefer to work with us to register and track your employees’ completion. In this option, we provide completion reports or you designate a course manager (from your organization) to monitor completion. This service is paused and unavailable until February 1, 2022. Individual course access is still available during this time. After February 1, 2022 there will be a small fee for this service.