Completing your profile

We’ll walk you through how to complete your Violet profile so your Benchmarks accurately reflect your education and work experience. This guide covers what to include, what to avoid, and how to ensure your profile best represents your expertise.

What type of education should I include?

When adding education to your Violet profile, we recommend that you follow a few guidelines:

Include trainings and educational experiences that are specifically related to cultural competence or that focus on personalizing your care approach for different identities, specifically BIPOC, LGBQ, Neurodivergent, Rural, TGNC, and Veteran individuals.
- Continue to update your profile as you complete new education related to cultural competence or population health. Any courses completed on the Violet platform will be automatically applied to the relevant Benchmark.
Prioritize education from the past five years.
Be as explicit as possible by listing full course titles and organization names. This allows us to score your education accurately.
We can’t evaluate full degree programs (college, master’s, or PhD). Instead, we review individual courses to understand how they relate to Violet’s six measured patient populations: BIPOC, LGBQ, Neurodivergent, Rural, TGNC, and Veteran.
If adding university courses, please enter the number of credits and not the number of hours (max. 3-4 credits).
Make sure to list only educational activities in the education section—not work experience such as residencies, practicums, or internships. Those should be added under work experience.

Examples of education that contribute to your Benchmarks:

Name	Organization	Credits	Patient population
Introduction to Cultural Competence	Quantum Units Education	1	All
Why Weight? Improving the health of LGBTQIA+ patients by reducing weight stigma	National LGBTQIA+ Health Education Center-The Fenway Institute	1	LGBQ, TGNC
Incorporating Hispanic and Latino Cultural Identity into the Therapeutic Process	NASW-CA	3	BIPOC
Providing Inclusive, Respectful Care to your Gender Questioning, Transgender, & Nonbinary Clients	Clearly Clinical	3	TGNC
Addressing Racism and Bias in the US Healthcare System	National Association of Pediatric Nurse Practitioners	1	BIPOC
Minority Stress and Its Impacts on Mental Health	The University of Maryland School of Social Work	1	BIPOC
Grief, Loss and Meaning in BIPOC Veterans: Exploring Historical Trauma and Suicide Risk Management	National Board for Certified Counselors	3	Veteran
Nervous System Regulation Therapy for ADHD and Autistic clients	The Art of Self Healing	1	Neurodivergent
Addressing Community Health and Social Equity Rural Challenges	Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment	1	Rural

What NOT to include:

Name	Organization	Credits	Denial reason
Masters in Clinical Psychology Masters in Social Work Medical Residency	NYU	150	We do not accept entire college, university, master’s, PhD, or residency programs. Education is evaluated at the individual course level to determine its relevance to the patient populations we benchmark for and to expanding cultural competence.
LGBTQ 101	Suffolk University	10	We accept the number of credits, not hours for college/university courses.
Internship / Practicum	West Virginia University	9	This would be considered a work experience and should be entered into the work experience section instead of education history.
Diversity work training	Group practice	3	This entry is too vague. We’re unable to evaluate any specific learnings or relevance to the patient populations we benchmark for.
Intro to Marriage, Couple, Family Counseling Family Counseling w/Children and Adolescents Sex Therapy	CSU Northridge	3	Does not relate to the patient populations we benchmark for.

What type of work experience should I include?

We recommend that adding any clinical work experience in which you have provided care to the BIPOC, LGBQ, TGNC, Neurodivergent, Rural, and Veteran patients, including your current position.

Work experiences may include clinical practice, internship, practicums, patient or health coordination, or supervisory roles.

Examples of work experience that contributes to your Benchmarks:

Job title

Organization

Department

Demographic composition of patient panel

Therapist

Kaiser Permanente

Mental Health

15% BIPOC

5% LGBQ

4% Neurodivergent

8% Rural

1% Veteran

Nurse Practitioner

Galileo

Family Medicine

25% from BIPOC

15% from LGBQ

3% from TGNC

1% Neurodivergent

What NOT to include:

Job title

Organization

Department

Demographic composition of patient panel

Reason

Psychotherapist

Private practice

0% LGBQ

0% BIPOC

0% TGNC

0% Neurodivergent

0% Rural

0% Veteran

If you did not work with any BIPOC, LGBQ, TGNC, Neurodivergent, Rural, or Veteran patients, it is not necessary to list your experience.

Operations manager

Digital Health Organization

Operations

You do not need to list any business or operations roles in which you did not directly interact with patients.

What further experience should I include?

Further experience can include work or activities that deepen your understanding of BIPOC, LGBQ, TGNC, Neurodivergent, Veteran, and Rural patients, particularly as it relates to health care. Whether you’ve volunteered with community organizations or served on boards advancing care for specific patient groups, this experience reflects your commitment to supporting the health and well-being of the people you serve.

Include:

Volunteering: Community service, mutual aid work.
Advocacy: Policy, grassroots organizing, community engagement.
Teaching: Continuing education courses, college classes, didactics.
Research: Principal investigator, academic research, publications, clinical trials.
Leadership: Board membership, ERG leadership, committees.

What NOT to include:

Clinical work experience.
Lived experience — self, family, or friends.
Traveling or study abroad.