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Achieve Cultural Proficiency
Cultural Proficiency Guidelines
-- View a list of issues to consider when preparing patient education and continuing medical education materials and programs.
Specific Populations
-- Find information about specific populations, such as GLBT, deaf and hard of hearing, and children and adolescents.
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.
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).
HHS Office of Minority Health, Think Cultural Health
-- Bridging the health Care Gap through Cultural competency Continuing Education Programs, including CME resources.
HHS Office of Minority Health, A Physician's Guide to Culturally Competent Care Registration
-- View course information and register.
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
-- The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality's Health Care Innovations Exchange is designed to support health care professionals in sharing and adopting innovations that improve the delivery of care to patients. Patient populations sections include race and ethnicity, vulnerable populations, and more.
US Department of Health & Human Services Administration Cultural Competence Resources for Health Care Providers
-- The 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.
The Commonwealth Fund Publications: Health Care Disparities
-- Read several articles on cultural competence and health care disparities.
Cultural Proficiency
