Research Guides: Cultural Competency: Education

Tools and Materials

Inclusive Classroom Toolkit (GWSPH)
"This Inclusive Teaching Toolkit is designed to assist faculty in understanding the concepts of inclusive teaching and incorporating these ideas into your classroom. This toolkit is part of the upcoming GWSPH DEI Initiative that is being developed to respond to a societal call for social justice by changing the way GWSPH works to integrate DEI into every sphere of our work. This initiative encompasses Academics, Research, Practice, and Operations."
Fostering Inclusive Learning: A Guide for Faculty in Higher Education
Goldman, Ellen F. and Eiduson, Lisa S., (June, 2021).
Can a checklist ameliorate implicit bias in medical education?
Use the online checklist to assess course materials
Caruso Brown, A. E., Hobart, T. R., Botash, A. S., & Germain, L. J. (2019). Medical Education, 53(5), 510–510. https://doi.org/10.1111/medu.13840
A Structural Competency Curriculum for Primary Care Providers to Address the Opioid Use Disorder, HIV, and Hepatitis C Syndemic
Bagchi A. D. (2020). Frontiers in public health, 8, 210. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2020.00210
Structural Competency: Curriculum for Medical Students, Residents, and Interprofessional Teams on the Structural Factors That Produce Health Disparities
March 13, 2020
Race and Culture Guide for Editors of Teaching Cases
Supplemental digital content for Krishnan A, Rabinowitz M, Ziminsky A, Scott SM, Chretien KC. Addressing race, culture, and structural inequality in medical education: A guide for revising teaching cases. Acad Med
Anti-Racism Resource Library
"This resource library was developed by APTR members to support the APTR Policy: Role of Academia in Combatting Structural Racism in the United States"
Promoting Cultural Humility in Nursing Education Through the Use of Ground Rules
Smith A, Foronda C. Nurs Educ Perspect. 2019 Nov 26. doi: 10.1097/01.NEP.0000000000000594. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 31804284.

Bates' Visual Guide to Physical Examination
Physical examination content and clinical skills videos covering head-to-toe and systems-based physical examination techniques. Access: available from on-campus locations and via VPN from off-campus locations.
Video content includes:
-Use of Non-Stigmatizing Language
-Use of Preferred Title, Name, and Gender Pronoun
-Rapport: Patients with Physical and Sensory Disabilities
-Rapport: LGBTQ+ Adults
-Broaching Sensitive Topics
-Working with Medical Interpreters

Association Resources

AMA Center for Health Equity
2020 Institute for Nursing Leadership Critical Conversation on Health Equity and Racism
Videos, summary report, and resource library from the American Academy of Nursing Institute for Nursing Leadership
Beyond Flexner Alliance
"The Beyond Flexner Alliance aims to promote social mission in health professions education by networking learners, teachers, community leaders, health policy makers and their organizations to advance equity in education, research, service, policy, and practice."
Tool for Assessing Cultural Competence Training (TACCT)
"An AAMC project—called "Medical Education and Cultural Competence: A Strategy to Eliminate Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health Care" made possible by The Commonwealth Fund—spurred the development of the TACCT to assess cultural competency training in medical schools. TACCT is a 67-item self-administered assessment tool that can be used by medical schools to examine all components of the entire medical school curriculum. "

Resources for Diverse Images

Fair Use guidelines permit faculty to use images, graphics, and other copyrighted material for their course lectures. Material must not be distributed outside of your class or made available to a wider audience.

Disabled and Here Collection
Disability-led effort to provide free and inclusive stock photos shot from a disability perspective. Features disabled BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, People of Color) across the Pacific Northwest.
The Gender Spectrum Collection
Stock photo library featuring images of trans and non-binary models that go beyond the cliches. Aims to represent members of these communities as people not necessarily defined by their gender identities.
Nappy
Provides beautify, high-resolution photos of Black and Brown people. All photos licensed under a Creative Commons Zero (CCO) license.
PICNOI
A co-op of stock image photography database featuring free multi-racial stock images.
Plus-Sized Stock Photos
Focuses on increasing the accessibility of spaces for people of all sizes and abilities. Free stock photo collection "of plus-size people doing normal things" to address lack of inclusion of plus-size bodies in stock photo collections.
Women of Color in Tech (#WOCinTech)
Stock photos intended to combat the idea the idea that there are no Women of Color (WOC) in the tech industry by increasing their visibility.

Diverse & Inclusive Image Resources found on University on Illinois Library's Social Media Accessibility & Inclusivity LibGuide.

MedEd PORTAL Publications

Anti-Racism Collection on MedEdPORTAL
"practice-based, peer-reviewed resources to teach anti-racist knowledge and clinical skills"
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Collection
"peer-reviewed educational resources for educators to advance institutional efforts in creating a diverse and inclusive culture that drives equitable clinical, educational, research, and service excellence"
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"The goals of the Diversity, Inclusion, and Health Equity Collection are to provide trainees, faculty, deans, staff, and other institutional leaders tangible, practice-based, peer-reviewed resources to contribute to:
Developing an environment (i.e., academic, clinical, community-based) that promotes multiple perspectives, mutual respect, and inclusiveness for all;
Conducting culturally responsive clinical, research, educational, and service work and scholarship;
Disseminating best practices in diversity, inclusion, and health equity through publishing resources developed, implemented, and refined at one or more institutions that can be replicated or adapted for use at other institutions."

Medical Education Articles

Cultural Humility Versus Cultural Competence: A Critical Distinction in Defining Physician Training Outcomes in Multicultural Education
Tervalon, M., & Murray-García, J. (1998).
Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved 9(2), 117-125. doi:10.1353/hpu.2010.0233.
Addressing Race and Racism in Medical Education (Academic Medicine)
"Academic Medicine is committed to assisting medical schools and teaching hospitals, their faculty and trainees, and the public in dismantling racism. This collection of articles was curated with the intent to help readers engage in necessary conversations about race and to inform strategies to eliminate structural racism in their institutions. Read more about the collection's creation".
Addressing Race and Racism in Medical Education (Podcast Episode)
Academic Medicine Podcast. Sep 14, 2020
Understanding and Addressing Disparities and Discrimination in Education and in the Physician Workforce
American College of Physicians
A Position Paper
2021

Articles on Training for Healthcare Professionals

Training healthcare professionals in LGBTI cultural competencies: Exploratory findings from the Health4LGBTI pilot project
Patient Educ Couns. 2020 May;103(5):978-987. doi: 10.1016/j.pec.2019.12.007. Epub 2019 Dec 16. PMID: 31866197.