A crash-course in cultural competence

Ethnicity and Disease

Volumn 16, Issue SUPPL. 3, 2006, Pages

  Rust, George ^a,b   Kondwani, Kofi ^a   Martinez, Ruben ^a   Dansie, Roberto ^a   Wong, Winston ^a   Fry Johnson, Yvonne ^a   Woody, Rocio Del Milagro ^a   Daniels, Elvan J ^a   Herbert Carter, Janice ^a   Aponte, Laura ^a   Strothers, Harry ^a  

^a MOREHOUSE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Department of Family Medicine ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Access to care; African American; Asian; Attitudes and health; Cross cultural communications; Cultural competence; Cultural diversity; Effective communication; Latino; Medical education; Multi cultural; Physician patient relationship

Indexed keywords

AFRICAN AMERICAN; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CONFERENCE PAPER; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; FAMILY MEDICINE; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HUMAN; MEDICAL EDUCATION; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; RACE DIFFERENCE; UNITED STATES; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; METHODOLOGY;

CLINICAL COMPETENCE; CULTURAL DIVERSITY; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; EDUCATION, MEDICAL; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 34250716521     PISSN: 1049510X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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