Culturally Competent Health Care: An Education Program for Chest Physicians CHEST 2006 Cultural Diversity Postgraduate Course

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Sheik Hassan, MD, FCCP

• Impact of Stereotyping in Medical Decisions
• Need for Culturally & Liguistically Appropriate Services

Patricia Thomas

• Elements of Cultural Competence in Physician-Patient Encounters
• Improving Culturally Competent Care Role of Health-care Providers and Institutions

Alejandro Arroliga, MD, FCCP

• Culturally Competent Communication: Key Components
• Understanding Language Barriers And Use of Interpreters

Alice Beal, MD, FCCP

• Case Studies
• Cross-Cultural Clinical Skills

Alvin V. Thomas, Jr. MD, FCCP

• Health-care Disparities

Allen I. Goldberg, MD, Master FCCP

• The Communication Health-care Project of The CHEST Foundation

Herman Taylor, MD

• The Jackson Heart Study

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