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Accelerated Cultural Competence Course-September 2017
This course is open to employees of the University of Chicago Medicine and Biological Sciences Division.
All course graduates become Cultural Competence Advocates who serve as resources in meetings and in their departments. Advocates also have an opportunity to become Cultural Competence Trainers. Cultural Competence Trainers partner with Diversity, Inclusion & Equity to deliver training in their department.
Target Audience
Learning Objectives
At the conclusion of this activity, participants will be able to:
- Discuss regulatory, legal, and ethical reasons to be culturally competent providers and organizations;
- Characterize how power, privilege, and oppression can affect a healthcare environment;
- Identify how multiple identities, such as race, gender, and socio-economic status, may influence our perception of self and others and may influence access to resources and social power;
- Illustrate how the cycle of socialization and worldview can be seen in patients;
- Identify when to use the C-LARA tool (Check your pulse, Listen, Affirm, Respond, Add) for non-violent communication;
- Describe the impact of low health literacy on patient safety and quality of care;
- Describe the regulatory expectation related to addressing low health literacy;
- State how teach-back can be used to improve health literacy in patients.
- 16.50 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
- 16.50 Participation
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ACCESSIBILITY The University of Chicago is committed to providing equal access appropriate to need and circumstances and complies fully with legal requirements of the Americans with Disabilities Act. If you are in need of special accommodation, please contact our office at (773) 702-4351 or via email at joel.jackson@uchospitals.edu.
ACTIVITY CO-DIRECTORS
Clinical Nurse Educator
University of Chicago Medicine
Joel D. Jackson
Manager, Education & Training
Department of Diversity, Inclusion & Equity
University of Chicago Medicine
Disclosure Declarations
As a provider accredited by the ACCME, The University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine asks everyone who is in a position to control the content of an education activity to disclose all relevant financial relationships with anycommercial interest. This includes any entity producing, marketing, re-selling, or distributing health care goods or services consumed by or used on patients. The ACCME defines “relevant financial relationships” as financial relationships in any amount occurring within the past 12 months, including financial relationships of a spouse or life partner that could create a conflict of interest. Mechanisms are in place to identify and resolve any potential conflict of interest prior to the start of the activity.
Additionally, The University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine requires authors to identify investigational products or off-label uses of products regulated by the US Food and Drug Administration, at first mention and where appropriate in the content.
The University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
Registration: This course is only open to University of Chicago affiliates and will be held throughout the year.
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