Faculty Development:

Bereknyei S, Hooper KM, Braddock CH.  Under Development: Train-the-Trainer course on Cultural Competence for Faculty Development: Health Disparities, Exploring Definitions of Multiculturalism and Diversity, Reflective Practice, Exploring Health Beliefs, Effective Use of Interpreters, Exploring the Culture of Medicine through Group Dynamics and Institutional Analysis, Educational and Evaluation Methods.

Bereknyei S, Hooper KM, Braddock CH. “Patient Centered Communication: Cultural Competence” module for “Professionalism in Contemporary Practice” course.  Each faculty participant from the September 2005 program is now teaching this material at their respective faculty settings; another set of faculty will attend in September 2006. Includes readings, PowerPoint presentation, facilitator notes, pocket cards for participants, and HBAS survey tool

Pre-Clinical Coursework:

MS1 Q1 Sessions on:

Exploring Patient’s Perspective: “Exploring patient’s perspective” module in the medical interview curriculum. Includes learning goals and objectives, readings, web-based tutorial, scripts for standardized patients, and facilitator notes.

Assessing the Patient’s Problem.

Effectively Working with Interpreters: Includes learning goals and objectives, readings, web-based tutorial, scripts for standardized patients, and facilitator notes.

MS1 Q2 Sessions on:

Cultural Competence: Lesson plan for the reading The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down. Includes learning goals and objectives, instructions for reflective writing exercise, and facilitator notes.

Health Disparities: Lesson plan for a case vignette in “Worlds Apart” addressing health disparities.

MS1 Q3 Sessions on:

Clinical Case Studies on Childhood Asthma on Socio-Cultural Determinants of Health and Disparities

MS2 Sessions on:

Clinical Problem Solving: Clinical Case Studies Exploring Social and Cultural Issues in Practice

Health and Human Disease Course:

Cross cultural content in HHD curriculum and exams

Clerkship Exercises:

Pediatrics Clerkship Exercise (SP cases listed): All pediatric clerkship students participate in a newly developed SP cultural competence curriculum involving 5 SP encounters. The students are able to watch as well as experience situations incorporating trigger questions with additional learning objectives such as: folk illness remedies, impact of illness on family, domestic violence, and effectively using an interpreter.  In a group of four, each student has a SP encounter, while the remaining students observe through closed-circuit television, followed by extensive debriefing.

Applied Biomedical Sciences: “Hold Your Breath” Viewing and Discussion: Clerkship students watch and respond to “Hold Your Breath”, directed by Dr. Maren Grainger-Monsen.  Students participated in a large group discussion with the protagonist physician, as well as had a chance to discuss in a small group setting

Facilitator’s Discussion Guide for “Hold Your Breath” film, developed in conjunction with Dr. Maren Grainger-Monsen

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