NPR’s Sarah Boden wrote yesterday about an evolution of the Hippocratic Oath new Doctors take when dawning their white coats, expanding it to include efforts. In her article “A New Hippocratic Oath Asks Doctors To Fight Racial Injustice And Misinformation“, Boden shares how incoming first-year medical students recited a newly penned pledge against racial injustice [...]
When using Healthcare Simulation to educate and train for culture competence, the research evidence is overwhelmingly clear: the potential exists for the use of high-fidelity patient simulation as an effective teaching strategy for cultural competency training. Providing learners with the opportunity to engage and provide care for patients from different cultural backgrounds, ethnic heritages, gender [...]
Medical Simulation can help your learners to address health disparities experienced by patients of a racial and ethnic minority. April is National Minority Health Month, sponsored by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Minority Health. In the United States, 36% of the population belongs to a racial or ethnic minority group. [...]