Cultural Competency: Incorporating Communication Skills Training into Health Professions Curricula

Cultural Competency: Incorporating Communication Skills Training into Health Professions Curricula
Jefferson Medical College
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Product ID: 20294

Abstract: 
Lecture/workshop on incorporating communication skills training into health professions curriculum with emphasis on the development and implementation of an ethnogeriatric objective structured clinical experience (OSCE).

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Educational objectives: 
1. Express the role of verbal and non-verbal communication skills in the patient encounter 2. Adopt new tools for teaching and assessing communication skills with health professions students 3. Devise an action plan for one strategy to promote training of culturally and linguistically competent health care professionals
Additional information/Special implementation requirements or guidelines: 
None
Publications from, presentations from, and/or citations to this product: 
Burke J and Collins L. Cultural Competency: Incorporating Communication Skills Training into Health Professions Curricula. Jefferson Center for Interprofessional Education First Annual Conference. Symposia presented, October 2008.
Date posted: 
Tue, 02/03/2009
Date last updated: 
Tue, 02/03/2009
CME credits available: 
No
Has this product been peer reviewed?: 
No
Learning resource types: 
Contact person/corresponding author: 
Dr. Lauren Collins, MD ([email protected])
Authors: 
Dr. Lauren Collins, MD
Dr. Janice Burke
NLM Citation:
Collins, MD, L and Burke, J. Cultural Competency: Incorporating Communication Skills Training into Health Professions Curricula. POGOe - Portal of Geriatric Online Education; 2009 Available from: http://www.pogoe.org/productid/20294
APA Citation:
Collins, MD, L and Burke, J. (2009). Cultural Competency: Incorporating Communication Skills Training into Health Professions Curricula. POGOe - Portal of Geriatric Online Education. Retrieved September 28, 2011 from http://www.pogoe.org/productid/20294