Using the Tool for Assessing Cultural Competence Training (TACCT) to measure faculty and medical student perceptions of cultural competence instruction in the first three years of the curriculum

Academic Medicine

Volumn 81, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 557-564

  Lie, Désirée ^a   Boker, John ^a   Cleveland, Ella ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b ASSOCIATION OF AMERICAN MEDICAL COLLEGES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; CULTURAL COMPETENCE; CURRICULUM; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL STUDENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKILL; STUDENT ATTITUDE; TOOL FOR ASSESSING CULTURAL COMPETENCE TRAINING; TRAINING; UNITED STATES; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; DECISION MAKING; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; LEARNING; MEDICAL SCHOOL; METHODOLOGY; PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; TEACHING;

CULTURAL DIVERSITY; CURRICULUM; DECISION MAKING; EDUCATION, MEDICAL, UNDERGRADUATE; FACULTY, MEDICAL; HUMANS; LEARNING; PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCE; PROGRAM EVALUATION; QUESTIONNAIRES; STEREOTYPING; STUDENTS, MEDICAL; TEACHING;

EID: 33745514512     PISSN: 10402446     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.ACM.0000225219.53325.52     Document Type: Article

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