Advancing Health Equity: Challenges and Opportunities

Racial and ethnic minorities have poorer health outcomes, experience a lower quality of service when engaging healthcare, receive basic medical procedures at a lesser rate, have shorter life expectancies and have more significant challenges accessing healthcare.  In this online course, Dr. Patrick Smith, Director of Bioethics Program, Trent Center for Bioethics, Humanities and the History of Medicine at Duke University, addresses the impact of social marginalization in health, how racialized imagination can affect healthcare delivery and impact patient outcomes.

Target Audience

Physicians, Physician Assistants/Physician Associates, Nurse Practitioners, Nurses, Social Workers, Respiratory Therapists, Clinical Chaplains, Pharmacists, Pharmacy Technicians, Medical Students, Registered Dietitians, and other interested healthcare professionals.

Learning Objectives

  • Examine how social marginalization negatively impacts health outcomes, contributing to disparities in care and access.
  • Evaluate the influence of racialized imaginations and biases on healthcare delivery, affecting both patient treatment and clinical decisions. 
  • Identify four key commitments for advancing health equity including ethical commitments, human dignity, work for the common good, and solidarity. 
Additional information
Bibliography: 
  • Fletcher, F. E., Ray, K. S., Brown, V. A., & Smith, P. T. (2022). Addressing anti‐Black racism in bioethics: responding to the call. Hastings Center Report, 52, S3-S11.
  • Hoffman, K. M., Trawalter, S., Axt, J. R., & Oliver, M. N. (2016). Racial Bias in Pain Assessment and Treatment Recommendations, and False Beliefs About Biological Differences Between Blacks and Whites. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 113(16), 4296–4301.
  • Gay, E. D. (2018, April 4). Serena Williams Could Insist that Doctors Listen to Her. Most Black Women Can’t. The Nation.
Course Summary
Available credit: 
  • 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
  • 1.00 General certificate of attendance
  • 1.00 Florida Board of Dietitians
  • 1.00 Florida Board of Clinical Social Workers, Marriage and Family Therapists and Mental Health Counselors
  • 1.00 Nurse Practitioners
  • 1.00 Florida Board of Nursing
  • 1.00 Florida Board of Pharmacy
Course opens: 
10/01/2024
Course expires: 
09/30/2027

Patrick T. Smith, Ph.D.
Associate Research Professor of Theological Ethics and Bioethics, Duke University Divinity School
Director of Bioethics Program, Trent Center for Bioethics, Humanities and the History of Medicine
Associate Professor in Population Health Sciences, Duke University School of Medicine
Senior Fellow, Kenan Institute for Ethics, Duke University

Patrick Smith, Ph.D., faculty for this educational activity, has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies* to disclose, and has indicated that the presentation or discussion will not include off-label or unapproved product usage.

Rabbi Claudio J. Kogan, M.D., director of this educational activity, has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies* to disclose, and has indicated that the presentation or discussion will not include off-label or unapproved product usage.

Non-faculty contributors involved in the planning, development and editing/review of the content have no relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies* to disclose.

*Ineligible companies – Companies whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients. 

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Baptist Health South Florida designates this enduring material for a maximum of 1 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Available Credit

  • 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
  • 1.00 General certificate of attendance
  • 1.00 Florida Board of Dietitians
  • 1.00 Florida Board of Clinical Social Workers, Marriage and Family Therapists and Mental Health Counselors
  • 1.00 Nurse Practitioners
  • 1.00 Florida Board of Nursing
  • 1.00 Florida Board of Pharmacy
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