• Anti-Racism: Tools for Change

    Online CME

    Bridge care gaps by breaking barriers. This all-new on demand course was designed to help you:

    • Recognize and overcome biases you may not realize adversely affect patient care
    • Apply proven listening and engagement strategies to build stronger relationships with patients from varied backgrounds
    • Deliver a higher level of equitable care for your patients

    Through interactive sessions and didactics, you will:

    • Delve into medicine’s complicated history with people of color to better understand their discomfort today.
    • Identify disproven biased medical protocols
    • Understand how certain words and actions have biased undertones, however unintended
    • Be better prepared for difficult but respectful conversations about race and bias 

    See full list of sessions below.


    AAFP Member: FREE
    Other Health Care Professional: $325
    Nonmember: $425

    Christen Johnson, MD, MPH, FAAFP presents the following sections to deepen your understanding of anti-racism.

    • Anti-Racism: A Lifestyle
    • Awareness is Key: Biases in the Medical Team
    • It’s All of Us: Racism and Health Disparities
    • Learning the Basics: What is Racism?
    • Medical Experiences of Racism
    • Race and Medicine: An Intersection or Crossroads
    • T2P Reflection*

    *Enhance your patient care today and earn up to 2 additional AAFP Prescribed credits for when you complete the Translation to Practice® (t2p®) process.

    Upon completion of this CME activity, you should be able to:

    • Determine how physicians can gain a better understanding of how patients and their health outcomes are impacted by racism in medicine today.
    • Identify personal biases, recognize the social categorization of medicine, and better connect with patients of different identities.
    • Reflection on a framework that can assist with coping with difficult conversations, new ideas and material, and the uncomfortable work of addressing one’s personal biases.
    • High-speed broadband connection required for online access.
    • Latest version of FirefoxSafari, or Chrome on Windows or Macintosh computers or tablets.
    • Latest version of Adobe Reader.

     Supported by funding from Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited. This information or content and conclusions are those of the authors independent of the funders.

    The AAFP has reviewed Anti-Racism: Tools for Change and deemed it acceptable for up to 7.5 Enduring Materials, Self-Study AAFP Prescribed credit. Term of Approval is from 3/31/2023 to 3/31/2026. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

    AAFP Prescribed credit is accepted by the American Medical Association as equivalent to AMA PRA Category 1 Credittoward the AMA Physician's Recognition Award. When applying for the AMA PRA, Prescribed credit earned must be reported as Prescribed credit, not as Category 1.

    CME activities approved for AAFP credit are recognized by the AOA as equivalent to AOA Category 2 credit.

    Following this CME activity, participants will have the opportunity to earn an additional two Prescribed credits for participation in each Translation to Practice® exercise. Information on Translation to Practice® will be shared within the activity. 


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