Cultural Competence for Healthcare Professionals is an innovative and interactive online text that teaches the basics of the concept of cultural competence while helping students explore their own experiences and ideas about relevant topics such as privilege, cultural humility and bias. This text was written and designed by faculty responsible for adding cultural competence learning objectives to an undergraduate pre-professional healthcare course. The publication features succinct chapters with informative text, illustrations, pre/post-tests, and reflection questions that require students to consider the relevancy of the topics covered to their own experiences. Chapters also include videos and links to interactive elements that further serve to reinforce learning.
Delivered through a modern, attractive, online interface, the digital offering is an ideal supplement to courses that include cultural competence in the curriculum.
- History and Context
- The Importance of Cultural Competence in Healthcare Delivery
- Current Laws and Mandates
- Diversity and Why It Matters
- Understanding Bias
- Ethnocentrism, Cultural Relativism and Cultural Humility
- Assessing Cultural Competence
- Developing Personal Cultural Competence
- Fostering Cultural Competence Within Organizations
- Barriers to Cultural Competence
