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Monograph on Cultural Competency

Physician and black patient

Editors: Sheryl Heron, M.D., Antoine Kazzi, M.D., Marcus L. Martin, M.D.
Acknowledgment of Contributors

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Introduction
Foreword

Chapters 1-9

Training of Medical Professionals and the Delivery of Health Care as Related to Cultural Identity Groups
The Value of Ethnic and Racial Diversity in Academic Medicine
EM Faculty Caring for Multicultural Patients
Educating Students and Residents to Provide Culturally Competent Care: A Review of Models, Educational Methods
Interpreter Services in Emergency Medicine
The Patient-Physician Clinical Encounter
Spiritual Care Services in Emergency Medicine
Cultural Competency on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual or Transgender (LGBT)
Racial and Ethnic Disparities in the Emergency Department: A Public Health Perspective

Cases 1-13

African-American Community
Cambodian Refugee Community
Sickle Cell Crisis
Mongolian Spots
Death Telling and Cultural Competency
Child Abuse/Coin Rubbing
El Brujo
Toxic Ingestion
Adolescent Indian Male Sikh
Intimate Partner Violence in the Gay Community
The HLF ("Histrionic Latin Female")
West Indian/Caribbean
Chest Pain

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