In response to current and projected demographic changes in the United States, many dental schools have taken steps to increase the cultural competence of their students through various educational methods. The aim of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of the cultural competency curriculum at Boston University Henry M. Goldman School of Dental Medicine (GSDM). The curriculum was evalu...

OBJECTIVE This study describes an international acupuncture elective and its impact on medical students' development of cultural competence. METHODS Collaborating with Chinese colleagues, we created a 4-week elective that teaches medical students about acupuncture in its native cultural environment. Three focus groups were conducted to elicit students' experiences. RESULTS Students' reflect...

OBJECTIVE To know the experiences and perceptions of nurses in providing care and health promotion, women belonging to groups at risk of social vulnerability, applying the model of cultural competence Purnell. DESIGN Phenomenological qualitative study. LOCATION Department of Health Elda. PARTICIPANTS A total of 22 primary care professional volunteers. METHOD Semi-structured interviews a...

PURPOSE Objective structured clinical examinations (OSCEs) use standardized patients (SPs) to teach and evaluate medical students' skills. Few studies describe using OSCEs for cultural competence education, now a Liaison Committee on Medical Education accreditation standard for medical schools. We designed an OSCE station emphasizing cross-cultural communication skills (ccOSCE) and interviewed ...

OBJECTIVES To examine whether enculturation factors, like cultural activities, ethnic pride and native language competence, are related to decreased internalizing and externalizing symptoms in Indigenous Sami youth from Arctic Norway. The impact of self-efficacy on the relationship between enculturation factors and mental health problems was also examined. STUDY DESIGN Population-based, cross...

BACKGROUND The relevance of healthcare provider cultural competency to the achievement of goals for reduction in extant health disparities has been demonstrated; however, there are deficits with regard to cultural competency measurement. OBJECTIVES To examine the test-retest reliability of the cultural competence assessment instrument (CCA) among hospice providers, and to examine the reliabil...

The present study examines the underresearched topic of bicultural identity; specifically, we: (1) unpack the construct of Bicultural Identity Integration (BII), or the degree to which a bicultural individual perceives his/her two cultural identities as "compatible" versus "oppositional," and (2) identify the personality (Big Five) and acculturation (acculturation stress, acculturation attitude...

The authors apply two contemporary notions of culture to advance the conceptual basis of cultural competence in psychotherapy: Kleinman's (1995) definition of culture as what is at stake in local, social worlds, and Mattingly and Lawlor's (2001) concept of shared narratives between practitioners and patients. The authors examine these cultural constructs within a clinical case of an immigrant f...