Bill > A3721

Introduced Session

This bill requires implicit bias training for physicians biennially. Under the bill, the Department of Health (department), in consultation with the Division of Consumer Affairs in the Department of Law and Public Safety, the Department of Human Services, and the Board of Medical Examiners (board), is to establish a list of approved implicit bias training programs and a protocol by which providers of implicit bias training may seek approval of their training programs by the department. The implicit bias training programs are to, at a minimum, train physicians to recognize and diminish the impact of implicit bias in the practice of medicine, include an overview of current research on implicit bias in the practice of medicine, and include ways to recognize and diminish the impact of implicit bias in order to achieve better health care outcomes. Under the bill, the board is to ensure that a physician completes a minimum of two hours of implicit bias training within two years following the effective date of this bill, and a minimum of two hours of implicit bias training every two years thereafter. The bill defines "implicit bias" to mean an individual's prejudice in favor of or against a person or group which manifests itself in an unconscious manner.

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Angela Mcknight (D)*,  Shanique Speight (D)*, 

Introduced, Referred to Assembly Health Committee (on 03/16/2020)