For PHYSICIANS

Understanding and Preventing Bias in Cardiovascular Disease Specialty Care

⏰  30 minutes (plus optional activities)

🏆 0.5 AMA PRA Category 1 CME Credits (ACCME)

📜 Certificate of Completion

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This course builds on content originally developed with Close the Gap, a Boston Scientific initiative that aims to ensure every patient has access to specialty care and minimally invasive technologies.

As clinicians, we strive to provide all our patients the highest quality of care.

Despite shared professional commitments to fairness and clinical excellence, stark disparities persist in cardiovascular disease treatment and outcomes for Black, Hispanic, and female patients. These patients are less likely to receive guideline-concordant and advanced treatments and more likely to experience poorer outcomes.

This engaging, evidence-based course helps clinicians understand how these disparities occur—not due to overt discrimination, but because of unintentional cognitive processes that affect how we perceive, judge, and interact with patients. Drawing on neuroscience, cognitive psychology, and clinical case studies, this course sheds light on how implicit biases are formed and how they influence decision-making under stress or time pressure.

Learners will explore real-world patient scenarios and discover how biases may unintentionally shape diagnostic and treatment paths. The course offers practical strategies—such as mental framing, perspective taking, and trust-building behaviors—that clinicians can use immediately to mitigate bias and provide equitable, high-quality cardiovascular care.

Learners will be able to:

Describe the nature and extent of racial, ethnic, and gender inequities in cardiovascular disease care and outcomes.


Understand how implicit biases and stereotypes can unconsciously influence decision-making, empathy, and patient-provider interaction.


Recognize how social neuroscience findings help explain how group-based disparities in care can occur despite a commitment to fairness.


Apply effective, evidence-based strategies—such as mind hacks and empathy-building techniques—to prevent unintended biases from influencing clinical decisions in cardiovascular care.


Improve clinical interactions and communication with diverse patient populations to ensure equitable care and foster trust.

Course Format

This video learning course features engaging content delivered by experts in the field. Through informative presentations, case studies, and interactive exercises, you will deepen your knowledge and develop practical skills for providing respectful and equitable pain care for your patients. The self-paced format allows you to learn at your convenience, ensuring flexibility in your professional development.

Who Should Enroll

This course is designed for physicians seeking to enhance their understanding and skills in caring for patients with cardiovascular disease.

Why do Optum Health, Mayo Clinic, Boston Scientific, Hospital Association of New York, HealthPartners, Cleveland Clinic, the Permanente Medical Group, Sutter Health, Confluence Health, the Indiana Hospital Association, and the California Health Care Association, among others, choose our courses?

In their words:

#unmatched expertise | #the best we have seen | #truly evidence-based  | #top marks from our doctors | #head & shoulders above the rest  

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