Library Guides: Cultural Competency in Healthcare: Training & Assessment

National Training Opportunities

NIMHD (National Institute on Minority Health & Health Disparities) Translational Health Disparities Course This two-week intensive course will provide introduction in the principles and practice of health disparities research. With a focus on concepts, methods, key issues, and applications, this course aims to provide the knowledge and research tools needed to conduct and develop translational and transdisciplinary research and interventions to eliminate health disparities. The course content will be developed in the context of the history of health and health disparities in the United States. Biological and non-biological determinants of health will be addressed, and a range of social, political, economic, cultural, and legal theories related to health disparities will be covered.
US Department of Health and Human Services: A Physician’s Practical Guide to Culturally Competent Care A Physician's Practical Guide to Culturally Competent Care is a self-directed training course designed for physicians, physician assistants, and nurse practitioners. This e-learning program will equip health care providers with competencies that will enable them to better treat the increasingly diverse U.S. population. The content of this program has been updated to include the updated National CLAS Standards, more interactivity, and updated literature and references.
Cultural Competence Webinar Series: Quality Healthcare for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender People "This cultural competence webinar series explores the health concerns and healthcare of LGBT people and is open to anyone. We review the social determinants that influence how LGBT people seek and receive care and the impact those influences have on health. This webinar series is a project of GLMA (Gay & Lesbian Medical Association) in collaboration with the Hopkins Center for Health Disparities Solutions, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health."
The National Conference on Race & Ethnicity in American Higher Education (NCORE®) The NCORE® conference series constitutes the leading and most comprehensive national forum on issues of race and ethnicity in American higher education. The conference focuses on the complex task of creating and sustaining comprehensive institutional change designed to improve racial and ethnic relations on campus and to expand opportunities for educational access and success by culturally diverse, traditionally underrepresented populations. The Student Leadership Development Conference Scholarship Program supports a paid conference registration for each student recipient. Both undergraduate and graduate students are eligible.

Assessment

AAMC Tool for Assessing Cultural Competence Training (TACCT)
"With increasing diversity in the U.S. population and continued evidence of health and health care disparities, it is critically important that health care professionals are educated on how their own and their patients' demographics (e.g., gender, income, race, and ethnicity, etc.) and cultural (e.g., language, religion, etc.) factors influence health, health care delivery and health behaviors."
National Center for Cultural Competence: Tools and Processes for Self-Assessment
Assessing attitudes, practices, structures and policies of programs and their personnel is a necessary, effective and systematic way to plan for and incorporate cultural and linguistic competency within organizations. The NCCC invests a significant proportion of its resources to create tools and processes for self-assessment.

Diversity Health Series @ DMU

Promoting Healing In a Diverse World: The Diversity & Health Series (DHS)
The highly acclaimed, multi-award-winning Diversity & Health Series developed by Kaiser Permanente utilizes the art of film to create interactive and interdisciplinary cultural learning experiences. The videos are designed to assist trained facilitators with creating a safe environment that fosters open dialogue around cultural competency issues.

The Diversity Health Series was developed by Kaiser Permanente and is used as a teaching tool at Des Moines University. Dr. Rich Salas, the Director of Multicultural Affairs and Assistant Professor in the College of Medicine, has completed the Kaiser Permanente Diversity Health Master level facilitator certification training. For more information please contact the Dr. Rich Salas at 515-271-1709.

The DHS film series includes the following videos:

The Spirit is Able - focus on the culture and health of People with Disabilities com
OUT - focus on Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender, Intersex (GLBTI) culture and health
Viva Bien - focus on Latino culture and health
Touching the Dream - focus on African American culture and health
Journey of 10,000 Miles - focus on Asian/Pacific Islander culture and health
Hozho - Life in Balance - focus on Native American and Alaskan Native culture and health
Children of Adam - focus on the Greater Middle East culture and health
Side by Side: Generations Working Together - focus on 4 generations in the workplace and healthcare
In Our Boots: The Veterans Journey