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Culturally Competent Faculty

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Emergency Medicine (EM) faculty caring for multicultural patients traditionally serve dual roles: as role models for EM residents, medical students, and other health professionals and as practitioners involved in clinical encounters, decisions, and outcomes for culturally diverse patients. The objectives for this chapter are to define the concept of culturally competent faculty, review the current literature, and delineate educational interventions aimed at improving cultural competency skills. Results of our literature search show that there are only limited publications examining the role of EM faculty caring for multicultural patients. Current educational interventions consist of implementation of cultural competency curricula for faculty, and establishment of faculty development programs specific for cultural diversity. Recommendations for improving EM faculty’s skills on cultural competency include: expanding the role of EM faculty as patient advocates interfacing with local community; incorporating cultural competency curricula as an integral part of EM residency training by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME); and implementing a special Faculty Development Program (FDP) to integrate cultural competency training across all EM residency training programs.

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  1. Department of Emergency Medicine, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, Baldwin, NY, USA

    Georges Ramalanjaona M.D., D.Sc., M.B.A.

  2. Department of Emergency Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA

    Marcus L. Martin M.D.

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  1. Professor of Emergency Medicine University of Virginia School of Medicine Department of Emergency Medicine, Vice President and Chief Officer for Diversity and Equity, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA

    Marcus L. Martin

  2. Assistant Dean Clinical Education & Student Affairs Emory University School of Medicine, Professor of Emergency Medicine Vice Chair – Administrative Affairs, Atlanta, Georgia, USA

    Sheryl L. Heron

  3. Director of Diversity Department of Medicine Section of Emergency Medicine Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center - New Orleans, Professor of Emergency Medicine Director of Research, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA

    Lisa Moreno-Walton

  4. University of Virginia Hospital, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA

    Anna Walker Jones

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Ramalanjaona, G., Martin, M.L. (2016). Culturally Competent Faculty. In: Martin, M., Heron, S., Moreno-Walton, L., Jones, A. (eds) Diversity and Inclusion in Quality Patient Care. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-22840-2_4

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