Lisa Hark - Achieving Cultural Competency. A Case-Based Approach to Training Health Professionals

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Achieving cultural competency: a case-based approach to training health professionals/editors-in-chief, Lisa Hark, Horace DeLisser; senior editor, Gail Morrison.

p.; cm.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN 978-1-4051-8072-6

1. Transcultural medical careCase studies. 2. Physician and patientCase studies. 3. Medical personnelTraining ofCase studies. I. Hark, Lisa. II. DeLisser, Horace.

III. Morrison, Gail.

[DNLM: 1. Cultural CompetencyCase Reports. 2. Ethics, ClinicalCase Reports. 3. Physician-Patient RelationsCase Reports. 4. PrejudiceCase Reports. W 21 A178 2009]

RA418.5.T73A24 2009

610.696dc22

2008039954

Contributors

Associate Editors

Olivia Carter-Pokras, PhD

Associate Professor

Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics

University of Maryland School of Public Health

College Park, MD, USA

Darwin Deen, MD, MS

Medical Professor

Department of Community Health and Social Medicine

Sophie Davis College of Biomedical Education

City College of New York, NY, USA

Desiree Lie, MD, MSEd

Clinical Professor of Family Medicine

Department of Family Medicine

University of California at Irvine, Orange, CA, USA

Ana Nez, MD

Director of Womens Health Education Program

Associate Professor of Medicine

Drexel University College of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, USA

Debbie Salas-Lopez, MD, MPH, FACP

Associate Professor of Medicine

Division of General Internal Medicine

Vice Chair of Medicine

Lehigh Valley Hospital and Health Network, Allentown, PA, USA

Helen Abramova, MD, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Division of Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care Medicine, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, USA

Thomas A. Arcury, PhD, Professor and Research Director, Department of Family and Community Medicine Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC, USA

Elena N. Atochina-Vasserman, MD, PhD, Senior Research Investigator, Division of Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care Medicine University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, USA

Lisa Bellini, MD, Professor of Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care Medicine, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, USA

Clarence H. Braddock III, MD, MPH, Associate Dean for Medical Education Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA

Fran Burke, MS, RD, Senior Clinical Dietitian, Department of Cardiovascular Medicine University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, USA

Olivia Carter-Pokras, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics University of Maryland School of Public Health, College Park, MD, USA

Alexander J. Chou, MD, Instructor, Department of Pediatrics Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA

April Coleman, Managing Editor University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, USA

Ronald G. Collman, MD, Professor of Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care Medicine; Co-director, Penn Center for AIDS Research, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, USA

Nereida Correa, MD, MPH, Associate Clinical Professor of OB/GYN and Womens Health, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY, USA

Sonia Crandall, PhD, MS, Professor of Family and Community Medicine Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC, USA

Hetty Cunningham, MD, Assistant Clinical Professor of Pediatrics Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, NY, USA