What should we include in a cultural competence curriculum? An emerging formative evaluation process to foster curriculum development.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

To identify, prioritize, and organize components of a cultural competence curriculum to address disparities in cardiovascular disease.

Method

In 2006, four separate nominal group technique sessions were conducted with medical students, residents, community physicians, and academic physicians to generate and prioritize a list of concepts (i.e., ideas) to include in a curriculum. Afterward, 45 educators and researchers organized and prioritized the concepts using a card-sorting exercise. Multidimensional scaling (MDS) and hierarchical cluster analysis produced homogeneous groupings of related concepts and generated a cognitive map. The main outcome measures were the number of cultural competence concepts, their relative ranks, and the cognitive map.

Results

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SUBMITTER: Crenshaw K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3046368 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature