Monograph on Cultural Competency

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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