Culturally Competent Care: An Overview

The recent cultural competence movement encourages us to look at things from the perspective of our minority patients, whose experiences and languages have put them at a substantial cultural distance from American healthcare. Imagine receiving medical care in a place where you don’t understand the language. It can be frightening in many ways. The U.S. has always been a melting pot of ethnicities and treating minority patients is not the exception. This course explores in more detail how and why to incorporate cultural awareness into health care.