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Test Yourself

Assess Your Competence is a self-evaluation tool from the National Center for Cultural Competence.

Multicultural Health Portal

Cultural Care Tools

Cultural Competency

Culture Guides

  • Provider's Guide to Patient-Provider Interaction provides information that health care professionals can use to improve the quality of their interactions with patients whose culture may differ from their own
  • Guide to Culturally Competent Care is a textbook with a chapter briefly describing communication, family roles, high-risk behaviors, nutrition, pregnancy, death, spirituality, health practices and health practitioners for 24 cultures.
  • Culture Clues are tip sheets create by the University of Washington for clinicians designed to increase awareness about concetps and preferences of patients from diverse cultures.
  • Ethnomed covers cultural beliefs and medical issues for recent immigrants to Seattle, including Amharic, Cambodian, Eritrean, Ethiopian, Oromo, Somali, Tigrean and Vietnamese.

Language Access

Stanford site with a mission to increase the overall knowledge and skills of medical students, house staff, and other professionals, including practicing physicians on the ethnic, cultural, religious, socioeconomic, linguistic and other factors that contribute to health disparities, and on culturally competent approaches to mitigating these disparities.

Natural & Integrative
Medicine

Natural Medicines is a searchable database of natural product monographs that reviews the best scientific evidence; focusing on effectivenes

Natural Standard is an searchable database of complementary and alternative therapies based on evidence

Integrative Medicine is a textbook on integration of Western and other therapies with evidence references

Multi-lingual
Patient Handouts

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