In the early 2000s, while I was working as a curriculum designer, cultural competency specialist, trainer, and coach to support HIV/AIDS peer educators (most of whom were themselves living with ...

IT was Matthew Arnold, read and reverenced by the generation immediately preceding our own, who set to our eyes a definition and a goal of culture which has become the common property of all our world ...

Relevant beyond health care, cultural humility can more appropriately be thought of as a basic approach toward others; an approach that would be helpful on both sides of the current social dialogue.

A presentation during the 2022 American Society of Clinical Oncology Annual Meeting addressed end-of-life care and how it is influenced by patient spirituality. One education session titled “Knowing ...

I once received a sign-out on a patient from the emergency department for a well-appearing young child who was admitted for a urinary tract infection. Normally, a simple urinary tract infection does ...

I’m so excited to have been hired as the new Director of Diversity Education. In my three months on campus, I’ve been inspired by all the nerdiness, creativity and innovation. When I share the latest ...

This approach to communication is explained, along with strategies for practicing the approach when treating patients from these communities. Every ethnic and racial group in the country is affected ...

Cultural competency is not enough for palliative medicine to build trust and offer good deaths to all, write Jamilla Akhter Hussain , Rekha Vijayshankar , and Mary Hodgson Death, dying, and grief are ...

Thanksgiving is a day to give thanks: Thanks for family, for good health and for … Thanksgiving Day shopping? Uh, no thanks on that last one. Thanksgiving, sadly, is becoming the forgotten holiday, ...

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