An extensive body of literature has documented significant racial and ethnic disparities in
health and health care. Cultural competency interventions, including the training of …

Modern healthcare must reconcile its past and address the longstanding disparities
becoming more prominent in the public consciousness. Shortcomings exist on personal and …

ContextRecent attention has focused on whether government health service institutions,
particularly in the United Kingdom, reflect cultural sensitivity and competence and whether …

Issue: The framework of cultural humility, which emphasizes curiosity and self-reflection over
mastery, was identified over 20 years ago as a way to address implicit bias in health care, an …

Creating a socially conscious educational environment is an imperative if health care
practitioners are to have a significant impact on health inequities. The effects of practitioner …

Background: Cultural competence is a difficult skill to teach, as it has several operational
definitions as well as limited and unstandardized training procedures. Currently, there is no …

Healthcare practice in the US today faces the challenge of meeting the needs of a
multicultural society. A society that has the responsibility to provide care for its members …

Purpose To investigate the effect of exposure to a new course addressing social and cultural
issues in medicine on third-year medical students' awareness and understanding of how …

Teaching about diversity is synonymous with a quality education in health care. The focus
on diversity is not a separate aspect of quality teaching in and of itself. Rather, it is a key …

Medical schools are increasingly called to include social responsibility in their mandates. As
such, they are focusing their attention on the social determinants of health (SDOH) as key …