Clinician's Guide to Cultural Competency

The framework indicates important aspects in taking care of an ethnically diverse patient population.

In 2002 interviews were conducted with experts in cultural competence from managed care, government, and academe to identify their perspectives on the field. Findings and recent trends in cultural competence are presented.

This article discusses the need for cultural competence, the process of becoming a more culturally competent clinician. and reviews tools and techniques that help achieve cultural competence.

This report evaluates current definitions of cultural competence and identifies benefits to the health care system.

The purpose of this study was to assess the effects of a cultural competence training (CCT) program on pediatric health care providers' self-reported ability to provide culturally competent care to a diverse pediatric patient population.

This study aims to 1) identify the core components of cultural competence from a healthcare perspective, 2) to develop a self-report instrument to assess cultural competence of HCPs and 3) to evaluate the psychometric properties of the new instrument.

Highlights challenges in providing equitable emergency care to minority populations and proposes three processes to improve quality of care.

This study’s objective is to analyze training methods clinicians reported as most and least helpful during the DSM-5 Cultural Formulation Interview field trial, reasons why, and associations between demographic characteristics and method preferences.

This article discusses the concepts of cultural safety and cultural competence. A checklist of cultural competency practice is also provided for health practitioners.

This paper reviews available studies that applied the PEN-3 cultural model to address the impact of culture on health behaviors.