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Health professionals must be able to care for people of many different cultural backgrounds in order to produce better health outcomes. As faculty in a health professions school, you must also be able to teach people of many different cultural backgrounds and simultaneously teach your students to become culturally competent health care practitioners.
Being a culturally effective healthcare provider requires the ability to understand how the cultures of your clients may impact their care, and to communicate with your patients, even if you don't speak the same language as them.
This guide provides links to resources and tools that will help you support you in your teaching and your students in understanding how the cultures of the patients and clients they serve may impact their care.
APTA Blueprint for Teaching Cultural Competence in Physical Therapy Education (PDF)
A Guide to Cultural Competence in the Curriculum: Physical Therapy (PDF)
Resources for Teaching Cultural Competence in Physical Therapy Education (APTA - requires membership)
A Guide to Cultural Competence in the Curriculum: Speech-Language Pathology (PDF)
Educating Culturally Competent Clinicians: Using Multiple Perspectives to Review Curriculum Content
How to Create a Culturally Competent PA
DEI Toolkit & Best Practices Guide (PAEA - requires membership)
Curriculum Enhancement Module Series (Nat'l Center for Cultural Competence)
Gilbert MJ. Principles and recommended standards for cultural competence education of health care professionals. The California Endowment. Published 2003. (PDF)
Self-assessments
TACCT – Tool for Assessing Cultural Competence Training
Improving Cultural Competence: Tools for Assessing Cultural Competence
National Center for Cultural Competence: Self-Assessments
