HB 2915 -- IMPLICIT BIAS TRAINING FOR MEDICAL PROFESSIONALS

SPONSOR: Mann

Currently, the Board of Healing Arts requires physicians to complete 50 hours of continuing eduction every 2 years to renew their license. This bill requires 2 hours of the continuing education hours to consist of training that addresses implicit bias and its effects in health care settings. The training my be approved by the Board or offered by and organization approved by the Board.

The training must include examples of how implicit bias affects perceptions and treatments decisions and leads to disparities in outcomes or strategies on how to address unintended biases when making decisions about a patient's health that may lead to health care disparities.

Statutes affected:
Introduced (5797H.01): 334.075