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Implicit Bias - Weight Stigma in Health Care

Content Reviewed: March 18, 2025

State CME
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3 Videos

31 min.

Course Description

Bias against individuals considered to be overweight is pervasive in health care settings. Although scientific understanding of the causes of obesity has advanced in recent years, patients in larger bodies continue to face a great deal of stigma based on outdated and incomplete ideas about willpower, energy balance models, and scolding as a motivator. In this course students will explore the concept of weight stigma as a type of implicit bias, learn how patients experience weight stigma in a variety of settings, and identify concrete strategies for disrupting weight stigma.
Bias against individuals considered to be overweight is pervasive in health care settings. Although scientific understanding of the causes of obesity has advanced in recent years, patients in larger bodies continue to face a great deal of stigma based on outdated and incomplete ideas about willpower, energy balance models, and scolding as a motivator. In this course students will explore the concept of weight stigma as a type of implicit bias, learn how patients experience weight stigma in a variety of settings, and identify concrete strategies for disrupting weight stigma.

Faculty

Anne Cockerham, PhD, RN, CNM, CNE, WHNP-BC

Professor

Frontier Nursing University


Content Provider

Premiere CE

CME Accreditor

PACE-CME

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Videos

 

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31 min.

Why do we have weight stigma and what’s wrong with it?

15 m

Recall: Why do we have weight stigma and what’s wrong with it?

How do patients experience weight stigma?

9 m

Recall: How do patients experience weight stigma?

How can we disrupt weight stigma?

9 m

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