Research Guides: Emergency Medicine: Implicit Bias

This course will introduce you to insights about how our minds operate and help you understand the origins of implicit associations. You will also uncover some of your own biases and learn strategies for addressing them. Each module is divided into a series of lessons, many taking less than 10 minutes to complete.

Websites on Implicit Bias

How to Reduce Implicit Bias As more health care organizations work toward achieving health equity, it is not enough to focus on intentional discrimination. We must also acknowledge implicit bias and address it.
Implicit Bias in Health Care Screening Implicit bias refers to the attitudes or stereotypes that affect our understanding, actions, and decisions in an unconscious manner.
Keeping Up with Implicit Bias by ACRL Librarians’ implicit bias can negatively impact virtually all aspects of library operations. Unacknowledged implicit bias saps librarian morale and effectiveness, as well as discourages patrons from engaging with reference services.

The Implicit Association Test measures attitudes and beliefs that people may be unwilling or unable to report. It measures the strength of associations between concepts and evaluations or stereotypes. The main idea is that making a response is easier when closely related items share the same response key.

Implicit Bias in Healthcare Professions A systematic review of research on implicit biases among healthcare professionals.
Maryland Health Equity Summit Implicit Bias Training at Health Equity Summit by Maryland Department of Health, Office of Minority Health and Health Disparities.
State of Science: Implicit Bias Review Contrary to common belief the nation’s progress with gender and racial equity has largely confined biases today to a small group of aberrational actors, research has shown implicit biases are widespread and operate largely beneath the radar of human consciousness.