Activity ID
11142Expires
November 3, 2025Format Type
EnduringCME Credit
0.25Fee
$30CME Provider: American Medical Association
Description of CME Course
Understanding the history behind a patient’s lack of trust in a care plan will help you approach and communicate with patients more effectively. This module explores the distinctions between medical distrust and mistrust and how the history of medical experimentation and substandard care provided to people from racial and ethnic minority groups is at the root of mistrust and distrust in these communities.
Disclaimers
1. This activity is accredited by the American Medical Association.
2. This activity is free to AMA members.
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Commercial Support?
NoNOTE: If a Member Board has not deemed this activity for MOC approval as an accredited CME activity, this activity may count toward an ABMS Member Board’s general CME requirement. Please refer directly to your Member Board’s MOC Part II Lifelong Learning and Self-Assessment Program Requirements.
Educational Objectives
1. Define and differentiate between trustworthiness, medical distrust, and medical mistrust
2. Explain how historical and contemporary instances of medical experimentation and research on people from racial and ethnic minority groups contribute to medical distrust and medical mistrust
3. Implement strategies to understand and address medical distrust and medical mistrust among patient communities and strive for trustworthiness
Keywords
Health Disparities, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion
Competencies
Medical Knowledge, Professionalism
CME Credit Type
AMA PRA Category 1 Credit
DOI
10.1001/ama.2021.0002145
