CME
Emergent Medical Associate (EMA) is CME accredited by the California Medical Association, which is the ACCME-recognized continuing medical education (CME) accreditor for California. EMA has been accredited to provide CME to physicians since 2012. Our CME mission is to provide high quality education as it relates to risk management and the best policies and practices (evidence based where applicable) as it relates to mainly to Emergency Medicine Physicians. EMA does not accept Commercial Support for any of its CME activities.
As an CME accredited organization, we must follow a sets of CME standards that help navigate the process of providing CME education activities to providers that is informative, easily understood and physicians are able to apply what they learn to provide their patients better care with better patient outcome. Considering the diversity of patients and the many needs to better address their concerns, the State of California has approved new laws Assembly Bill (AB) 1195 and Assembly Bill (AB) 241 effective 1/1/2022, that all CME activities must include to help address cultural language competency and implicit bias concerns.
Dear Prospective Faculty/Planner/Speaker,
It is California State Law that Cultural Linguistic Bias (AB 1195) and Implicit Bias be included in all accredited CME educations that take place after January 1, 2022.
The California Medical Association (CMA) has defined cultural and linguistic competency (CLC) to be:
The ability and readiness of health care providers and organizations to humbly and respectfully demonstrate, effectively communicate, and tailor delivery of care to patients with diverse values, beliefs, identities and behaviors, in order to meet social, cultural and linguistic needs as they relate to patient health.
CMA has defined implicit bias (IB) to be:
The attitudes, stereotypes and feelings, either positive or negative, that affect our understanding, actions and decisions without conscious knowledge or control. Implicit bias is a universal phenomenon. When negative, implicit bias often contributes to unequal treatment and disparities in diagnosis, treatment decisions, levels of care and health care outcomes of people based on race, ethnicity, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, disability and other characteristics.
| EMA |
California | |||
| Number |
Percent | Number | Percent | |
| Hispanic or Latino | 7,599 | 1.5% | 14,903,982 | 38.6% |
| White | 350,009 | 69.1% | 14,837,242 | 38.4% |
| Black or African American | 30,831 | 6.08% | 2,158,363 | 5.6% |
| Asian | 27,762 | 5.5% | 5,280,818 | 13.7% |
| Other or multiple | 76,348 | 15.1% | 1,198,263 | 3.1% |
| Native HI/Pacific Islander | 11,071 | 2.2% | 139,956 | 0.4% |
| American Indian/AK Native | 3,298 | 0.7% | 136,582 | 0.4% |
Emergent Medical Associates is aware that implicit bias is unconscious, and therefore, needs to be brought to the learners’ attention, so that they can self-evaluate how they will mitigate the potential. As planners, we have identified the following areas where disparities in care affecting the patient population above and the role that IB might play in this topic:
Race, Disability (physically disabled and physically abled people), Sexuality, Religion, Gender-Career, Transgender, Weight, Age and Skin-Tone.
This list is not exhaustive, and you should address any other potential areas for bias that you have identified, in addition to above.
As someone affiliated with our CME program, it is important that you are aware of and consider the CLC and IB when implementing any educational intervention.
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