The need for physicians who are well equipped to treat patients of diverse social and
cultural backgrounds is evident. To this end, cultural competence education programs in …

Purpose Twenty years have passed since the Liaison Committee on Medical Education
(LCME) mandated cultural competence training at US medical schools. There remain …

Faculty from the Colleges of Nursing, Pharmacy, Social Work and Allied Health Sciences at
the University of Cincinnati collaborated to create an elective course that focused on …

Objective To augment resident training in the delivery of culturally effective care in order to
improve clinician capacity to effectively care for patients from diverse backgrounds. Methods …

Background: There is increasing recognition of the need for sophistication in the way culture
is understood and taught in medicine. Method: A two-phase study designed to understand …

Cultural competency has become an important component of physician assistant education.
How to implement the cultural competency training is still daunting to many PA educators …

This article reports on a collaborative project linking Washington State University College of
Nursing Vancouver and Southwest Washington Health District. Designed to improve the …

Interdisciplinary medical mission experiences provide opportunities for professionals and
students to offer health care to medically underserved communities. The purposes of this …

Over the past several years, the importance of culture in medical care and medical
education has gradually been acknowledged. Increases in literature (eg Hall et al., 2004; …

Background and Purpose. A curriculum-based service-learning (SL) project provided:(1)
integration of SL principles;(2) a description of a viable SL model; and (3) a method to …