Michigan LARA-Compliant Implicit Bias Training is a two-hour asynchronous, self-guided course on how implicit bias shapes perception, communication, and decision-making in healthcare settings, and what practitioners can do to interrupt it. It was built for healthcare from the ground up rather than adapted from a general workplace diversity module, and it is rooted in emotional intelligence rather than compliance framing.

The course runs in two modules. Module 1, Understanding Implicit Bias in Healthcare, covers what bias is and how it forms, the three perspectives of bias (the person who acts on it, the person on the receiving end, and the bystander who witnesses it), institutional and systemic bias, and a bias mitigation toolkit of strategies to reduce disparities in access to and delivery of healthcare services. Module 2, Empathy and Equitable Care, covers empathy as a practice rather than a feeling, the difference between perception and perspective, the anatomy of communication, and the CARE framework for aligning intent with impact.

Eleven short instructional videos carry the teaching, none longer than eight minutes. Two clinical case studies anchor the material, one built on access barriers and one on a minimized pain report. Every segment carries a graded quiz, and seven segments carry a written reflection the participant must submit before moving on. A graded pre-assessment opens the course and a graded post-assessment closes it. Participants who pass download a certificate the same day.

The course is delivered entirely online, on demand, on desktop and mobile, with no live component. It satisfies the implicit bias training requirement under Mich. Admin. Code R 338.7004 and is designed for Michigan-licensed professionals regulated under the Public Health Code.