AI Fundamentals for Healthcare Programs

I am deeply grateful for your courage in addressing the uncomfortable but essential topics of implicit bias, health disparities, and systemic racism in healthcare. When we reviewed that case where a Black patient’s pain was undertreated, you created an environment that allowed me to open up about the difficult conversation.  You not only  helped me examine my own biases and understand how I can project my beliefs in  clinical decision-making and how it affects the level of patient care.   The teachings have taught me to recognize biases not just in others but in myself, in algorithms that are created and tend to underestimate disease severity in patients of color, and in systems that create barriers to care for marginalized populations.   I will never forget the lifelong lessons on how to culturally provide care, and the importance of diverse clinical presentations when educating patients and others, and how to advocate for equitable treatment for every patient  interaction.  Thank you so much!