DEI: Foundational Series
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- Non-Member - $300
- PT Member - $100
- PTA Member - $100
- Student - $100
- Post-Professional Student - $100
- APTA Staff - Free!
This course examines how unconscious bias, power, privilege, and microaggressions shape experiences in healthcare, education, and professional settings. Participants gain practical tools to recognize bias, reduce harm, and build more inclusive and equitable environments through everyday actions and allyship.
Key Features
- This course is available until 12/31/2026
- Cost:
- $100 for PT, PTA, Post-Professional, and Student Members
- $300 for Non-Members
- CEU: Earn 0.6 CEUs
Course Details
- Video 1: Unconscious Bias in the Health Professions
- Explores where unconscious bias comes from, how it influences clinical and professional decision-making, and practical strategies to reduce its negative impact.
- Video 2: Power, Privilege, and Microaggressions
- Examines identity, power dynamics, and dominant cultures, and how these factors contribute to microaggressions in healthcare and professional environments.
- Video 3: Responding to Microaggressions through Allyship
- Provides allyship and bystander intervention frameworks to help participants respond to harm, support others, and foster respectful, accountable workplaces.
Diana Lautenberger
MA
Diana Lautenberger, MA, manages the Association of American Medical College's gender equity portfolio as co-lead of the AAMC's Gender Equity Lab. She also serves as a faculty member for the AAMC's leadership development seminars for junior and midcareer women and directs research projects related to faculty and staff workplace issues, specifically focused on diversity and inclusion, gender equity, and culture and climate.
Previously, she led various leadership and workforce engagement initiatives aimed at faculty development for AAMC. Responsible for curriculum design and implementation, she oversaw two leadership development programs for faculty to equip them with leadership skills needed to deal with the impending changes of the academic and health care environments.
She holds a masters degree in art education, with a focus on curriculum design and creative thinking as a driver of equity and solution to address systemic oppression. She is part of several organizations in the Washington, D.C. area, that use artistic expression to explore concepts of racism, sexism, and social justice.
Course Instructions
- Click on the Contents tab to watch the course recordings.
- Click the Take Quiz button to complete the assessment. Learners will have 3 attempts to pass and must answer at least 70% of questions correctly.
- Click Fill Out Survey under the Evaluation listing to provide valuable course feedback. Scroll down on all questions as there may be answer options that expand past the size of the window.
- Click the View/Print Your Certificate button under the Certificate listing. You can view/print your certificate at any time by visiting the APTA Learning Center and clicking the CEU Certificate/Transcript link on the left-hand side of the page.
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