| Description The patient population in Americs is becoming increasingly diverse. With this diversity comes additional challenges for healthcare providers while they seek to cross the cultural divide and to provide high quality care to their patients. These workshops offer insights into the challenges being faced by healthcare providers as well as how to address specific topic areas. Sample Modules The Impact of Culture on Healthcare
What are the challenges that are facing healthcare institutions, how to develop a cultral competency program, and suggestions for first steps in addressing the cultural and language issues. What is Culture?
What is culture and how does it impact our daily lives in the workplace? Finding Out About Ourselves
This module explores our own filters and viewpoints on healthcare and the impact of our own culture upon our values. Communication
Three main world cultural groupings are explored along with their communication patterns. Immigrants and Refugees
Driving factors behind immigration and the challenges faced by immigrants and refugees once they are here and seeking medical care. Global Health & Religion
Three main cultural viewpoints on healthcare are explored along with the religions of Judaism, Islam and Buddhism. | | Workshop Results Each module addresses the main topic in the context of a medical environment.
Tips are provided for crossing the cultural divide in each module. • Learn what culture is, how it is learned
• Understand what some of the broad
cultural trends are around the world
• Explore the impact of culture on your life
and your own cultural filters
• Understand some of the challenges faced by immigrants and refugees seeking
medical care
• Examine special challenges faced many
immigrants and refugees
• Learn how to identify when you are
having a cultural " moment"
• Create strategies for enhanced cultural
understanding to be implemented in the
workplace
• Understand how the religions of Islam,
Buddhism and Judaism contrast with
Christianity.
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