Break down unconscious bias within your workplace for Doctors in Training

Category: Training - Other

Date: January 23rd 2025 1:30pm until 4:30pm

Location: Zoom

 

Course ID: SW24-016

 

Associated Ladders of Learning:

  • 4 - Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion
  • For more information please click here to find our Course Catalogue

Overview:

This course will help participants to manage their biases and develop skills for overcoming them. Evolutionary psychologists report that we have learned to make up our minds, in a split-second, about whether we are encountering friend or foe and are hard-wired to be suspicious of those different from ourselves. Overweight people, those with a weak handshake or tattoos, and of course gender issues, race, LGBT (to name just a few!). This undermines confidence and may result in poor performance, disengagement and conflict. As a result, individuals and organisations are missing out on great talent; not forming strong working relationships, inhibiting excellent performance etc.

Content:

  1. Understand where unconscious bias stems from and the difference between bias, stereotyping and discrimination

  2. Recognise the numerous formats in which unconscious biases exist

  3. Understand the consequences to individuals and teams when unconscious biases influence behaviour

  4. Identify personal unconscious biases and how they may contrast with conscious views

  5. Adopt techniques for overcoming and challenging unconscious bias in order to be more inclusive

Audience:

CT1, CT2, ST1, ST2, ST3, ST4, ST5, ST6+, IMT1, IMT2, IMT3, or Public Health Trainee

Course Length:

This is a half day course starts at 13:30 and finishing at 16:30

Venue:

Online via Zoom

Booking for these courses will be taken on MaxCourse, our online booking system.

Information about how to use MaxCourse can be found on our website.

Please email england.facultydevelopment.sw@nhs.net with any questions, before and on the day.