Training in cultural competence aims to equip healthcare professionals with the knowledge, skills and attitudes necessary to deliver effective care across diverse sociocultural contexts. It ...

The intersection of patient satisfaction and quality of care is central to healthcare today, and a provider’s level of cultural competence can significantly impact his/her performance in both areas.

When I renewed my physician assistant license on the Oregon Medical Board (OMB) website last year, its questionnaire asked if I had participated in any “cultural-competence” training. Given that I had ...

A 2022 Hue report found that around 80% of HR professionals believe that their industry does a good job of implementing diversity-related initiatives. Yet, the study also reported that nearly 85% of ...

According to the United Nations, more people than ever before live in a country other than the one in which they were born. Some of these individuals and families are economic migrants seeking a ...

The Nevada Public Health Training Center was recently approved as a provider of the state mandated cultural competency training for healthcare facilities in Nevada. In 2019, Senate Bill 364 and Senate ...

The technology sector is in the midst of a raging debate about whether its leaders have done enough to ensure a diverse workforce. Yet those efforts are falling well short of the mark, leading some ...

The late 1990s marked the beginning of a movement within the human services professions that stressed the importance of cultural competency. Psychology and social work were the pioneers; these fields ...