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This online, self-paced course is designed for health professions students (including dental students) to provide a foundation in cultural competence and strategies to appropriately address cross-cultural issues in clinical settings. The course will prepare you to begin the journey toward competently and confidently interacting successfully with individuals from a diversity of cultures.

Topics: 

• Beginning the Journey: Awareness

• Building Cultural Knowledge

• Cultural Sensitivity

• Cultural Competence

• Resources

Learning Outcomes 

By completing this course, you will be able to:

• Recognize your own cultural frame of reference

• Describe differences in values and beliefs between and within cultures

• Distinguish between useful generalizations about culture and harmful stereotypes about patients in clinical settings

• Use the Observe Reflect Expand (ORE) model of cultural sensitivity to establish effective and long-term, patient-provider relationships

• Identify strategies to appropriately respond to patient reactions and cross-cultural issues in clinical settings

• Navigate cultural differences such as language barriers, beliefs, and practices related to health care

• Locate additional cultural diversity resources when needed

Register for this free course.