Have you ever questioned whether unconscious bias could harm patient trust? In today’s fast-paced healthcare world, medical gaslighting often goes unnoticed—eroding patient confidence and professional credibility. This course helps you recognise subtle communication patterns and cognitive biases that can unintentionally invalidate patient experiences.

You’ll explore how medical gaslighting affects vulnerable populations, undermines ethical care, and damages long-term clinical relationships. You’ll learn to identify the fine line between clinical authority and patient dismissal through guided reflection and practical strategies, ensuring your practice remains compassionate, transparent, and evidence-based.

By the end, you’ll discover how awareness transforms care. You’ll develop empathy-driven communication, embrace accountability, and strengthen patient trust through mindful, inclusive practice. This course empowers you to recognise and prevent medical gaslighting—creating safer, more respectful, and ethical healthcare environments. The course content was created in partnership with Dr. Kaitlyn M. Enright, a Certified ACRP-PrincipaI Investigator. The authors generated this text in part with GPT-4o, OpenAI’s large-scale language-generation model. Upon generating draft language, the authors and subject matter experts reviewed, edited, and revised the text to ensure it reflected accurate expertise and met high pedagogical standards. This course is for anyone wanting to promote a respectful care culture where every patient feels believed, validated, and genuinely cared for. There are no pre-requisites for this course. Don’t wait, start the course now!