Workshop Text: Cultural humility and cross cultural communication are essential skills for medical students who will be called upon to translate medically complex concepts and treatment plans to patients from diverse backgrounds. This skill set, however, is not often taught effectively during medical school.
This workshop will demonstrate a method for teaching cultural humility to medical students. Through the process of designing and testing a cross cultural patient education model, the student explores essential features and pitfalls of cross cultural education. Workshop participants will design an abbreviated patient education tool based on a case based scenario and engage in group discussion about the challenges involved. Presenters will share a project that was used in three languages from sub-Saharan Africa and another in Vermont and will discuss challenges from their field work. An evaluation rubric will be provided.Introduction (5mins) define cultural humility and discuss best practices in cross cultural communication.
Group Activity (10 mins) Using 1-2-4-all format, discuss pitfalls of cross cultural communication demonstrated in an excerpt from The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down.
Breakout Activity/ Interactive component (30 mins) Small groups of participants will design a patient education tool for a specific patient population based on a real life scenario.
Group Activity (15 mins) Discuss the process of designing a cross-cultural patient education tool with respect to cultural humility.
Wrap up (5 mins)
Take home products: Grading rubric , Resource guide with annotated bibliography
Topics: Faculty Development Seminar, 2020, Faculty, Clerkship Director, Patient Care, Professionalism, Interpersonal & Communication Skills, Practice-Based Learning & Improvement, GME, UME, Global Health, Advocacy,
