Valerie Montgomery Rice, MD, FACOG, a distinguished infertility specialist, highlights the pivotal role of cultural humility, diversity, acknowledgment of historical injustices, and collective action ...

Cultural competence has become a major issue in nursing practice, given the current and projected US demographics as well as the long-standing health disparities in people of diverse racial, ethnic, ...

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 ...

Glenview, Illinois – The American College of Chest Physicians (CHEST) is expanding its First 5 Minutes ® program to include e-learning modules addressing implicit bias and cultural humility in the ...

NEWTOWN SQUARE, Pa.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Physicians and their patients can perceive health care experiences differently when they don’t share the same culture, ethnicity, and language. Such situations ...

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 ...

Jay Carmona was 12 years old when he experienced his first anxiety attack. He was given Xanax after his mother took him to the hospital. Following a second attack, hospital tests detected both ...

What is cultural competency, and how does it fit in with healthcare? A recent survey among physicians in the United States shows that cultural competency is a key issue both for healthcare ...

Humility among health care providers can help prevent burnout. Cecilie Arcurs/E+ via Getty Images Better health care for patients begins with humility – a term not often associated with medicine. I ...