Culturally competent care is defined as the knowledge, skills and attitudes required to provide quality clinical care to patients from different cultural, ethnic and racial backgrounds. It involves ...

Developed by the Culturally Competent Care Education Committee at HMS, the following is a brief primer on the key concepts of cross-cultural care. The goal is: To establish the importance of ...

David Robertson is a 15 year old high school student from the Bronx , New York City , who presents to the ER in February 1998 with a complaint of “dull, aching pain” in his left knee for the past ...

The Culturally Competent Care Education Committee (CCCEC) at Harvard Medical School (HMS) created this on-line resource center to share resources and information on initiatives in cross cultural ...

Greetings! You have reached the homepage of the Laboratory of Jonathan B. Cohen in the Neurobiology Department at Harvard Medical School. For a brief description of our work, go here. The lab ...

Deirdre A. Sullivan Stewart, Ph.D. Ph.D. in Biochemistry from Brandeis University 1995 B.S. in Biochemistry from Lehigh University 1988 Research Interests: Structure / Function of the nicotinic ...

From the CCCEC, the CCC Primer covers the principles of cross-cultural care and emphasizes practical application in a clinical setting. A compilation of Case Studies that present dilemmas in the ...

HMS is utilizing the AAMC's Tool for Assessing Cultural Competence Training (TACCT) as a means for "mapping" the HMS curriculum and the points at which cultural competence training is being ...

Our mission is to train the next generation of physician-scientist leaders, who represent a rich spectrum of clinical disciplines and research areas from basic and translational sciences to ...

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