Cultural Proficiency Resources
Cultural Proficiency Guidelines
-- An AAFP list of issues to consider when preparing patient education and/or continuing medical education materials and programs.
Funding Resources for Practicing in Underserved Areas
-- An AAFP directory of financial aid programs, scholarships, fellowships, grants, awards and other incentives that attract and retain health care personnel in scarcity areas.
Quality Care for Diverse Populations Video
-- An AAFP training program that assists physicians and other health care professionals in becoming more culturally proficient in the provision of care to their patients.
Specific Populations
-- Links useful for specific cultural populations.
Center for the Study of Cultural Diversity in Health Care
-- A University of Wisconsin Medical School center that promotes high quality, culturally sensitive helath care for Wisconsin families.
Cross Cultural Health Care Program
-- A Seattle-based program that serves as a bridge between communities and health care institutions to ensure full accesst o quality health care that is culturally and linguistically appropriate.
Center for Healthy Families and Cultural Diversity
-- A program from the Robert Wood Johnson Medical School dedicated to leadership, advocacy and excellence in promoting culturally responsive, quality health care for diverse populations.
DiversityRx
-- Promotes language and cultural competence to improve the quality of health care for minority, immigrant, and ethnically diverse communities.
DiversityRx Listserv
-- DiversityRx’s culturally and linguistically appropriate services (CLAS) talk listserv.
"Think Cultural Health"
-- A set of interactive Web- or DVD-based learning modules from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Minority Health that allow physicians to view video case studies, share their reactions with other physicians in chat rooms, and link to additional resources.
A Provider's Handbook on Culturally Competent Care
-- A series of handbooks from Kaiser Permanente on the importance of cultural competence in health care for several specific cultural populations.
US Health & Human Services Adminisration (HRSA) Helath Resources for Health Care Providers
-- Cultural competence site highlights approximately 40 HRSA-supported projects on the critical subject of cross-cultural health care.
Institute for Diversity in Health Management
-- A 501(c) (3) nonprofit organization, collaborates with educators and health services organizations to expand leadership opportunities to ethnic minorities in health services management.
Interpretation Resources for Health Care Professionals
-- Includes links to companies that provide interpretation and translation services, as well as information from the U.S. government on implementing language access services in health care facilities.
Multi-Cultural Educational Services
-- Sells multilingual health and safety education materials.
STFM Core Curriculum Guidelines
-- Recommended Core Curriculum Guidelines on Culturally Sensitive and Competent Health Care
National Center for Cultural Competence’s (NCCC)
-- NCCC mission is to increase the capacity of health and mental health programs to design implement, and evaluate culturally and linguistically competent service delivery systems.
Culturally & Linguistically Appropriate Services (CLAS)
-- From the Office of Minority Health of the U.S. Department of Health & Human Resources, National Standards on Culturally & Linguistically Appropriate Services (CLAS).
HRSA Cultural Competence Curriculum Guide
-- HRSA Cultural Competence Curriculum Guide Transforming the Face of Health Professions Through Cultural & Linguistic Competence Education: The Role of the HRSA Centers of Excellence.
Provider's Guide to Quality & Culture Quiz
-- From Management Sciences for Health, a 23-question quiz intended to stimulate thinking about cultural competence. After completing the quiz, learn more about any of the topics by exploring in-depth readings and following suggested activities.
Cultural Competence Health Practitioner Assessment (CCHPA)
-- The CCHPA's goal is to promote cultural and linguistic competence to help eliminate health disparities among racial and ethnic groups.
Cross Cultural Health Care Program Assessment Tools
-- A directory of cultural competency assessment tools from CCHCP.
AAMC’s Tool for Assessing Cultural Competence Training
-- An instrument for measuring cultural competence in the undergraduate medical school curriculum.
The Commonwealth Fund
-- Literature available through The Commonwealth Fund on cultural competence issues.
Project Implicit
-- People don't always 'speak their minds', and it is suspected that people don't always 'know their minds'. This web site presents a method that demonstrates the conscious-unconscious divergences much more convincingly than has been possible with previous methods, using the Implicit Association Test (IAT) method.
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