Racial stereotyping and cultural competence: improving medical education

Racial stereotyping and medicine: the need for cultural competence.

Enhancing cultural competence in medical education

1Danish Research Centre for Migration, Ethnicity and Health, Department of Public Health, University of Copenhagen, Denmark 2Greenwood Institute of Child Health, Department of Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour, University of Leicester, Leicester, UK 3Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, Department of Public Health, Amsterdam Public Health research institute, Amsterdam, The Net...

Constructivism in cultural competence education.

A graduate course on cultural diversity, based in constructivist theory and structured on the Process of Cultural Competence in the Delivery of Healthcare Services model, was developed and taught through classroom and online methods. The following research questions were explored: 1) Can an educational experience, built on constructivist learning theory tenets, change students' perceptions, att...

Medical Education for a Changing World: Moving Beyond a Cultural Competence into Transnational Competence

Given rapidly changing global demographic dynamics and the unimpressive evidence regarding health outcomes attributable to cultural competence (CC) education, it is time to consider a fresh and unencumbered approach to preparing physicians to reduce health disparities and care for ethnoculturally and socially diverse patients, including migrants. Transnational competence (TC) education offers a...

Medical education for a changing world: moving beyond cultural competence into transnational competence.

Given rapidly changing global demographic dynamics and the unimpressive evidence regarding health outcomes attributable to cultural competence (CC) education, it is time to consider a fresh and unencumbered approach to preparing physicians to reduce health disparities and care for ethnoculturally and socially diverse patients, including migrants. Transnational competence (TC) education offers a...