Od-040054 MGUH Equity Forward Workshop: Stigma in Medicine - The Power of Language (IEM)
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This course offers 0.75 Continuing Professional Education credits to physicians and nurses. To claim the credits, the course must be completed prior to April 30, 2028. Once your evaluation is complete, log on to CloudCME® from your left SiTEL menu, and toggle to your Transcript to find the credits.
About this Course: This enduring material provides continuing education to physicians, nurses, and allied health professionals on stigmatizing language in clinical documentation and oral presentations and how this language can influence diagnostic and treatment decisions. Learners will review person-first, anti-oppressive language.
This course is presented as part of the 2025 Center for Health Equity Teaching for Inclusion and Equity Certificate Program: Equity Forward Faculty Workshops. This series contains fundamental principles workshops to educate faculty, fellows, residents, and staff on the theme of “Building Foundational Knowledge in Health Equity and Cultivating Inclusive Learning.” Because our faculty/learners are all in different places in their equity journey, this course offers opportunities to learn foundational health equity topics as well as ways to create more inclusive learning environments. Therefore, each workshop will cover topics in one of these two tracks (1) Foundational Knowledge in Health Equity track or (2) Teaching & Learning Environment track and a few workshops will cover topics in both tracks. These stand-alone workshops can be joined at any time.
Participants who attend and complete any 6 or more workshops of the series by September 30, 2025, will receive a Certificate of Completion on Teaching for Inclusion and Equity. Qualifying participants will be contacted in October 2025 with a copy of the certificate. Additional materials from workshops will be shared on the Equity Forward Faculty website: https://centerforhealthequity.georgetown.edu/equity-forward-faculty-campaign
This content offers Continuing Professional Education credits. To claim the credits, the course and evaluation must be completed prior to 4/30/2028. Once your evaluation is complete, log on to https://medstar.cloud-cme.com and toggle to your Transcript to find the credits the next business day.
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- Identify stigmatizing language within a sample written clinical vignette.
- Recognize that stigmatizing language in clinical documentation and oral presentations can propagate bias from one clinician to another, deleteriously influencing diagnostic and treatment decisions.
- Revise a written vignette to use person-first, anti-oppressive language.
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Aniket Kini
Anam Siddiqi