I’ve just watched a 90-minute recorded Zoom call among a bunch of Baylor University faculty and staff. Here’s what it was titled: “NSE” means New Student Experience. It’s a program at the university ...

Asa Hilliard stated, “Cultural competence is a prerequisite for professional competence”. Throughout the 1990s the acquisition of cultural competence focused on three main areas: knowledge, awareness, ...

The late 1990s marked the beginning of a movement within the human services professions that stressed the importance of cultural competency. Psychology and social work were the pioneers; these fields ...

I once received a sign-out on a patient from the emergency department for a well-appearing young child who was admitted for a urinary tract infection. Normally, a simple urinary tract infection does ...

The ability to provide therapeutic services online has drastically changed the therapy landscape and the demand for digital solutions has continued to grow rapidly in the context of the COVID-19 ...

Two (2) female medical students are working together on a group assignment. They are writing their notes on a laptop and sitting at a desk in a training laboratory. They are both wearing scrubs. The ...

This approach to communication is explained, along with strategies for practicing the approach when treating patients from these communities. Every ethnic and racial group in the country is affected ...

Yom Kippur, the holiest of all the Jewish High Holy Days, literally translates to “day of atonement.” Jews throughout the world express remorse for both their individual sins and those of humanity by ...

In the summer of 2016, I was in a cab in Yokohama, Japan, trying to use the few Japanese phrases I know. The Japanese cab driver must have detected from my accent that I was an American. He asked me ...