Cultural Competency in Healthcare Workshop Series
In order to address the health disparities that disproportionately impact minorities and the underprivileged, The Aetna Foundation has generously funded a three part workshop series on Cultural Competency in Healthcare in the spring of 2008.
Each half-day workshop will train healthcare professionals about knowledge, attitudes and skills regarding cultural competency, and will include a keynote speaker, an interactive breakout session led by Diversity Center staff, and a patient testimonial. Continuing education credits are available for nurses, psychologists and social workers.
Click here to register online (if your computer settings permit) or to print out a Word version of the registration form
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Workshop A Tuesday, February 12, 2008
Keynote--Understanding Health Disparities: Cultural Impact and Practical Strategies Speaker--Charles Modlin M.D., F.A.C.S. Kidney Transplant Surgeon/Urologist, Director,Cleveland Clinic Minority Men’s Health Center/ Health Equity Institute Interactive Breakout Topic-- Healthcare Compliance: What does it Look Like? How Can You Gain It? |
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Workshop B Tuesday, March 11, 2008
Keynote--Developing Cultural Competence and Effective Transcultural Communication Speaker--Cora Munoz, RN, Ph.D. Professor at Capital University in Columbus, Ohio, Author of Transcultural NursingInteractive Breakout Topic--Communicating Across Cultures: Using an Interpreter and Transcending Illiteracy |
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Workshop C Thursday, April 24, 2008
Keynote--Culture Counts: Depression Among Minorities Speaker--Toni Johnson, MD Medical Director of Behavioral Medicine & Counseling, and Director of Psychiatry, Residency Training Program, at Metro Health, Assistant Professor, Case Western Reserve University, Board Certified in Psychiatry and Neurology Interactive Breakout Topic-- Developing Cultural Awareness: Moving Forward |
Who Should Attend:
All providers of healthcare services, including Doctors, Nurses, Psychologists, Psychiatrists, Counselors, Social Workers, Marriage & Family Therapists, and Case Managers.
Where is it?
Click here for location information & directions
Why Attend?
According to the 2005 National Health Disparities Report, on average, Blacks are 9% more likely and Hispanics are 16% more likely to receive poorer quality health care than Whites. Further, the poor are 40% more likely than high income individuals to receive poorer quality care, and 2.5 times more likely to have worse access to care. Multiple studies report that minorities don't have the same healthcare access, don’t get prescribed the same prescriptions as Whites, and often don't get treated as quickly as Whites.
As Aetna Chairman and CEO John W. Rowe, M.D. said, "The evidence of the damaging health consequences of racial and ethnic disparities in health care continues to be overwhelming."
Professionals in all medical disciplines are calling for cultural competency training to help medical professionals learn how to address these disparities, by understanding their own unconscious biases, and by learning about the different ways in which various cultures understand and deal with illness. The 2002 Institute of Medicine report Unequal Treatment recommends cultural competency training for healthcare professionals in order to help to break down the stereotyping , bias, and unequal treatment which occurs in healthcare.
Continuing education credits are available, as listed below:
- The Ohio Board of Nursing through the approver unit at the Ohio League for Nursing (OBN-006-92) Ohio League for Nursing has approved each workshop for 3.25 contact hours. The approval numbers are as follows: Workshop A OLN-S-984-07, Workshop B OLN-S-985-07, Workshop C OLN-S-986-07.
- The Counselor, Social Worker & Marriage and Family Therapist Board has approved each workshop for 3.25 clock hours, approval # MCST020806.
- The Ohio Psychological Association has approved this activity for 3.25 MCE credit hours. Approved Provider # 201966761.
RSVP soon! Space is limited.
Download the series brochure
--please forward it to other healthcare providers in your network.
Click here to register online (if your computer settings permit) or to print out a Word version of
the registration form
Thank you to our generous sponsor
for funding this workshop series.
We also thank
for providing location support
For more information please contact Kara Patterson at
(216) 752-3000 or kpatterson@diversitycenterneo.org
