Implicit bias training provides healthcare providers with important insights to recognize and remedy implicit bias. These actions can result in improved patient-provider communication, overall patient experience and quality of care, and a culture shift across committed organizations toward the broader goal of achieving equity for every mom and baby.
March of Dimes was the recipient of the American Hospital Association’s 2020 Award of Honor for efforts to advance health equity through implicit bias training for healthcare professionals in maternal and infant care settings.
After completing this training participants will be able to:
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Understand and identify implicit bias, the cognitive basis that informs bias, and its impact on maternity care settings.
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Explain how structural racism has played a key role in shaping care settings within the U.S. and contributes to implicit biases in patient/provider encounters.
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Recognize one’s potential for implicit bias and apply strategies, such as the CARES FrameworkTM and practice cultural humility, to effectively mitigate their own implicit biases.
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Recognize and establish a culture of equity as an organizational commitment through action planning to elevate the quality of maternity care.
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Technical support
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Accreditation and certificate delivery
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Utilization, completion, and program evaluation reports
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6 months of access through our online learning management system
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Each course is accredited for 1.5 Continuing Medical Education (CME)/Continuing Nursing Education (CNE) credit
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Live training for healthcare professionals
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Dedicated March of Dimes trainer/facilitator
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Pre-meeting with trainer to review agenda and requests for custom content (i.e., interactive exercises for learners, regional or locally specific data or context)
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3-4 hour training session
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Program evaluation (assessing knowledge, attitudes, intentions) and reporting
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Each session is accredited for 3.5 Continuing Medical Education (CME)/Continuing Nursing Education (CNE) credit
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March of Dimes is working to mitigate bias among maternal and infant healthcare professionals and to promote better outcomes for pregnant and postpartum people, newborns, and their families through education and action. More than 50,000 health care professionals were provided access to continuing education to improve maternal and infant health outcomes in 2022.
Our implicit bias training was offered to 30,000 healthcare professionals to increase awareness and stimulate action in care settings nationwide. We also had training on topics such as reducing stigma in the care of women with maternal mental health and substance use disorders; care practices to reduce maternal morbidity and mortality; and strategies to improve care and outcomes in the NICU. More than 90% of participants reported an increase in knowledge and intent to change practice following these trainings.
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Dedicated March of Dimes trainer/facilitator
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Pre-meeting with trainer to review agenda and requests for custom content (i.e., interactive exercises for learners, regional or locally specific data or context)
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3-4 hour training session in-person or on Zoom
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Trainings can accommodate up to 100 attendees per session
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Program evaluation (assessing knowledge, attitudes, intentions) and reporting
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Sites will also receive a Simulation Facilitator's Guide. This exclusive add-on will allow sites to facilitate five in-person simulations to practice applying strategies from the training.
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Each session is accredited for 3.5 Continuing Medical Education (CME)/Continuing Nursing Education (CNE) credit
In response to Vice President Kamala Harris' call-to-action to reduce maternal mortality and morbidity in the U.S., Blue Cross Blue Shield Association and Pampers partnered with March of Dimes to provide implicit bias training to improve health equity in care settings.
Blue Cross Blue Shield Association (BCBS) entered into a national partnership with March of Dimes to advance health equity outcomes for moms and babies titled “Awareness to Action: Dismantling Bias in Maternal and Infant Healthcare™.” Through this partnership, BCBS companies will be able to offer March of Dimes’ implicit bias training to providers, nursing and medical students, perinatal quality collaboratives, and community organizations and their employees. The program has been initially rolled out in 20 states and will be expanded to additional locations in the coming year.
Pampers doubled its support of the March of Dimes accredited implicit bias training, “Awareness to Action: Dismantling Bias in Maternal and Infant Healthcare™,” for maternal health care staff in high need states in 2022, which they estimate will impact more than 20,000 parents each year.