Training & Development

These resources, posted by the UCSF Memory and Aging Center, include FAQs and guidance for older adults, social distancing compliant activities, tips for dementia caregivers, and services to help access food, incontinence supplies, and pharmacy needs.

This resource page for cultural competency training focuses on implicit bias, which is an unconsciously held set of assumptions about a social group that affects judgment and decision-making without conscious awareness of that influence. In health care, implicit bias has been associated with disparities in provider–patient communications and relationships. The website provides links to a video series, reports, research articles, and an implicit bias test.

The Clinician Partners Program is a 2.5-day "mini-residency" for health professionals who serve older adults living in rural or semi-rural areas of Missouri. It is offered through the Rural Educational Outreach Initiative of the Knight Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center.

"Faster Together, Enhancing the Recruitment of Minorities in Clinical Trials" is a free online course that aims to teach people how to enhance the recruitment of people from racial and ethnic minorities into clinical trials. Key topics include the importance of diversity in clinical trials, barriers and facilitators to participation in clinical research, community engagement, effective communication, educating about clinical trials, provider outreach, effective prescreening and enrollment...

An illustrated, two-page, full-color flyer provides information on MUNDOS, a program at the Massachusetts General Hospital Psychology Assessment Center. MUNDOS provides neuropsychological services and enriched training opportunities for clinical psychology students who are interested in multicultural neuropsychology. The program serves individuals with diverse cultural and linguistic backgrounds, including individuals who are monolingual and bilingual Spanish/English speakers.

Strengthening Translational Research in Diverse Enrollment (STRIDE) is a collaborative project focused on developing innovative approaches to enhancing informed consent procedures, with a goal of improving research literacy among underserved populations.

The Global Brain Health Institute is an initiative that works to reduce the scale and impact of dementia around the world by training and supporting a new generation of leaders.

The Global Brain Health Institute is an initiative that works to reduce the scale and impact of dementia around the world.

The "NIH Scientific Workforce Diversity Toolkit," published by the Scientific Workforce Diversity (SWD) Office of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), is a free, downloadable interactive resource that institutions can use to help advance their own faculty diversity and inclusion practices. The toolkit guides users through evidence-based activities to foster an inclusive culture including diversifying the talent pool, conducting unbiased talent searches, conducting outreach and networking...

This webinar series covers regulatory documentation for clinical trials, informed consent, good clinical practice, and many other topics.