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Curriculum for culturally responsive health care; the step-by-step guide for cultural competence training.


9781846192944

Curriculum for culturally responsive health care; the step-by-step guide for cultural competence cultural competence Social medicine The ability to understand, appreciate, and interact with persons from cultures and/or belief systems other than one's own  training.

Ring, Jeffrey M. et al.

Radcliffe Publishing

2008

258 pages

$59.95

Paperback

R724

This guide outlines a curriculum for use in residencies, medical and other health professions schools to teach culturally responsive health care. Ring (cultural medicine, doctor-patient communication, and mind-body medicine, Family Medicine Residency Training Program) et al. conducted a project that evaluated the curriculum at the Family Medicine Residency Training Program at White Memorial Medical Center in Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. . Here, they describe the three-year curriculum, which is connected to the ACGME ACGME Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education  and AAMC AAMC Association of American Medical Colleges
AAMC Anne Arundel Medical Center (Annapolis, MD)
AAMC American Association of Medical Colleges
AAMC American Alliance for Medical Cannabis
AAMC Accredited Association Management Company
 core competencies A core competency is something that a firm can do well and that meets the following three conditions specified by Hamel and Prahalad (1990):
  1. It provides customer benefits
  2. It is hard for competitors to imitate
  3. It can be leveraged widely to many products and markets.
. They detail design and program implementation, specific sessions and teaching methods, cultural exercises, and evaluation tools. There is no index. Published by Radcliffe Publishing, UK, and distributed in the US by BookMasters.

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