The intersection of patient satisfaction and quality of care is central to healthcare today, and a provider’s level of cultural competence can significantly impact his/her performance in both areas.

When I renewed my physician assistant license on the Oregon Medical Board (OMB) website last year, its questionnaire asked if I had participated in any “cultural-competence” training. Given that I had ...

Training in cultural competence aims to equip healthcare professionals with the knowledge, skills and attitudes necessary to deliver effective care across diverse sociocultural contexts. It ...

Low-quality evidence suggests that training health care professionals in patient-centered communication improves the engagement of patients from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds in ...

According to the United Nations, more people than ever before live in a country other than the one in which they were born. Some of these individuals and families are economic migrants seeking a ...

The Nevada Public Health Training Center was recently approved as a provider of the state mandated cultural competency training for healthcare facilities in Nevada. In 2019, Senate Bill 364 and Senate ...

A 2022 Hue report found that around 80% of HR professionals believe that their industry does a good job of implementing diversity-related initiatives. Yet, the study also reported that nearly 85% of ...

This Cultural Competency Program (CCP) provides 25 class hours of live research-based instruction over 6 weeks (12 hours live interactive learning sessions; 13 hours (minimum) offline experiential ...

Obie Ford III, campus director of Equity and Diversity at WSU Vancouver, leads a Building a Community of Equity workshop for faculty and staff. By Steve Nakata, Division of Student Affairs Students, ...