AMA Releases Educational Resources to Advance Equity in Health Care In alignment with its commitment to inform and educate physicians on topics important to health equity, the American Medical Association (AMA) recently announced a series of CME and educational activities aimed at addressing the root causes of inequities, including racism and other structural determinants of health. The new content - featured on the AMA Ed Hub™ Health Equity Education Center and curated by the AMA’s Center for Health Equity - will equip physicians and other learners with core health equity concepts needed to support them as they continue to take action and confront health injustice. An innovative online platform that supports continuing medical education (CME) and other professional training, the AMA Ed Hub™ serves as a centralized source of high-quality, vetted educational content from the AMA and other trusted sources. The new equity-related modules recently announced have been developed by the AMA’s Center for Health Equity and additional collaborating organizations, such as the American College of Radiology (ACR), COVID Black, The Fenway Institute, Howard Brown Health, SAGECare and Stanford Medicine. Examples of available modules include content from the AMA Center for Health Equity’s Prioritizing Equity CME video series- illuminating how COVID-19 and other determinants of health uniquely impact marginalized communities - and more from data organization COVID Black. Prioritizing Equity CME Video Series • Prioritizing Equity — The Root Cause: An overview of health equity perspectives from advocates whose work is driven by the mission to address the root cause of health inequity and the social determinants of health.
• Prioritizing Equity — Trustworthiness & Vaccines: A review of misinformation, trustworthiness and strategies to handle vaccine hesitancy among patients and health care professionals. • Prioritizing Equity — Mental Health and COVID-19: Covering COVID-19’s immediate and long-term effects on the mental health of minoritized and marginalized communities. COVID Black CME Module • Introduction to Racism in Medicine (Module 1) An overview of the historical and contemporary social construction of race and the obstacles racism poses for the attainment of health and wellness. Additional new health equity-related modules are scheduled for release throughout the remainder of 2021 and beyond, covering key topic areas such as structural competency, public health, social sciences, critical race theory and historical basis of disease. An overarching goal of the content is to help learners better understand how systems of power, structures, policies and practices impact us all.
A new service to support and assist frontline healthcare workers with behavioral health services is now available from the Saginaw County Community Mental Health Authority.
Free Confidential Counseling for Frontline Healthcare Workers
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Free, confidential counseling services are available for healthcare professionals and their immediate family to provide help coping with the stress and anxiety due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Professional counselors provide primary care screening, assessment and monitoring of key health indicators. These services are available to those that need extra help coping during this extremely stressful time. There is no shame in talking, in person or virtually, with someone.
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