Building Toward Belonging: Implicit Bias Training is a continuous curriculum that is helping Michigan Medicine evolve into a more respectful and inclusive academic medical center.

This mandatory training is the organization’s first step in educating our community on why inclusion matters, identify key allyship behaviors that reduce the influence of implicit bias in decision-making, and integrate strategies for mitigating bias in our daily work.

Since the training’s launch in April 2022, the Professional Development & Inclusion (PDI) Team at Office for Health Equity & Inclusion (OHEI) has been hard at work in facilitating over 165 sessions & reaching nearly 7000 staff, faculty & learners across the health system.

With the accelerated progress of training over 20% of the Michigan Medicine community thus far, the PDI team is excited to share learnings for improved processes & recommendations to further support this growing body of work. We would also like to use this as an opportunity to glean insight & feedback from our DEI community about what our next steps forward should be in building a more inclusive culture at Michigan Medicine.