It’s a small world after all: Teaching residents cultural competency
Cultural competency training is an important aspect to include in your residency training. Not only is it relevant to the professionalism, interpersonal communication, and patient care competencies, teaching residents how culture can affect the patient-physician relationship helps them improve overall patient satisfaction.
In the December issue of RPA, I wrote an article discussing cultural competency, how to implement cross-cultural training, and gave readers curriculum activities to reinforce the lessons.
T.J. Jirasevijinda, MD, assistant professor of pediatrics at Weill Cornell Medical College in New York City, developed a series of ten hands-on cultural competency workshops for interns, and several activities and educational sessions for senior residents.
One of the easiest activities to implement is a movie night. Jirasevijinda shows movies with cross-cultural themes, and after discusses them with the residents. Movies he shows include:
Show these movies after providing residents with basic training on cultural competency. Otherwise, they may not fully understand what cultural competency means, it’s implications, and their own biases. Watching these movies would not have the same affect without an understanding of the role cultural competency plays in health care.
Jirasevijinda also has residents journal about their experiences during a community-based primary care rotation. Listen to the audio clip below of Jirasevijinda explaining the journal project and how it helps residents better understand their patients.
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