Getting the Most Bang for Your…Peso? Integrating Communication Training to Maximize Effectiveness and Efficiency in Cultural Competency OSCEs

• In Event: Discussing Sexuality, Avoiding Brutality, and Cultural Modality: Training Interpersonal Skills in Traditionally Taboo Contexts

Abstract

The medical field has increasingly become concerned with the quality of health care received by culturally diverse patients and the ability of physicians to treat patients in a culturally competent manner. However, medical schools lack a core curriculum for teaching cultural competency, mainly as the skills needed to be "culturally competent" remain undefined. This training program offers a suggested skill set, as well as an assessment technique to determine whether these skills develop cultural competency.

Author

• Lisa Guntzviller, Purdue University