Minority Health and Health Disparity Education
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Objective:
To develop workshops and other educational forums that focus upon disseminating critical knowledge about health disparities and teaching practical skills to maximize culturally proficient healthcare service delivery. Our University also includes military and civilian health care professionals and lay populations.
Under the direction of Richard Tanenbaum, PhD, the Minority Health and Health Disparity Education Component focuses upon providing both didactic training and experiential exercises to sensitize current and future healthcare and biomedical science professionals to the need for reducing and ultimately eliminating healthcare disparities in minority and underserved populations. To date, CEHTO accomplishes this objective by infusing cultural sensitivity/proficiency training modules into existing university courses and providing opportunities for students to practice - hands-on - the strategies and techniques introduced and discussed in the classroom. This experiential aspect of the training is accomplished by using standardized patients at the NCA Medical Simulation Center.
Enhancing communication and interpersonal skills among healthcare providers will improve the functionality of the patient-provider relationship, thereby reducing health disparities by maximizing the understanding of cultural, stylistic, and individual differences. Military health providers treat family members and their dependents from varying backgrounds at home and overseas. This training will reduce healthcare disparities by providing practitioners with skills to navigate within and between culturally diverse populations. Providing similar training to minority population students interested in careers in healthcare and/or the biomedical sciences will provide heightened awareness and skills that will further reduce health disparities.
Training USUHS faculty and those at the educational institutions with which we partner is another essential aspect of the training initiative upon which we will concentrate our attention. This training is not only important with regard to educating the faculty about the goals and objectives of the Center, but as with the students, will help these individuals enhance their own cultural proficiency and multicultural sophistication.
- Cultural Awareness Workshop
- Family Practice Clerkship Training
- Health Disparity Seminars
If you need more information, please contact Alesha Bowens at 301-295-1553.
