Context Competency‐based medical education (CBME) has emerged as a core strategy to
educate and assess the next generation of physicians. Advantages of CBME include: a …

EI n behalf on the Institute of Medicine and my colleagues on the committee, I would like to
outline the major find-ings and recommendations of our report, Un-equal Treatment …

Thus the idea of cultural competence is problematic for medical anthropology, because it is
based on simplistic notions of culture that can lead to unfortunate assumptions and …

Executive summary Planned and unplanned migrations, diverse social practices, and
emerging disease vectors transform how health and wellbeing are understood and …

For most of literary history, personal confessions about illness were considered too intimate
to share publicly. By the mid-twentieth century, however, a series of events set the stage for …

To adequately address gendered issues of sexual harassment, wage gaps, and leadership
inequities, medical institutions must interrogate medical education. Feminist theories can …

Abstract OBJECTIVES: To determine: 1) whether racial and ethnic differences exist in
patients' perceptions of primary care provider (PCP) and general health care system-related …

Objective: A growing multicultural society presents healthcare providers with a difficult task
of providing appropriate care for individuals who have different life experiences, beliefs …

The United States is rapidly transforming into one of the most racially and ethnically diverse
nations in the world. Groups commonly referred to as minorities-including Asian Americans …

Burnout is common among doctors in the West, so one might assume that a medical career
in Malawi, one of the poorest countries in the world, would place far greater strain on the …