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In looking for more information on Cultural Competency, a PubMed search was done using the term "cultural competency." The following articles were accessed through the VCU Libraries and some may be free through the publishers site. Follow the links for a brief synopsis and review of the article.

Medical Education

 * Carter MM, Lewis EL, Sbrocco T, Tanenbaum R, Oswald JC, Sykora W, Williams P, Hill LD. Cultural competency training for third-year clerkship students: effects of an interactive workshop on student attitudes. J Natl Med Assoc. 2006 Nov;98(11):1772-8.
 * Kripalani S, Bussey-Jones J, Katz MG, Genao I. A prescription for cultural competence in medical education. J Gen Intern Med 2006 Oct; 21(10):1116-20.
 * Ladson GM, Lin JM, Flores A, Magrane D. An assessment of cultural competence of first- and second-year medical students at a historically diverse medical school. Am J Obstet Gynecol. 2006 Nov;195(5):1457-62.
 * Onyoni EM, Ives TJ. Assessing implementation of cultural competency content in the curricula of colleges of pharmacy in the United States and Canada. Am J Pharm Educ. 2007 Apr 15;71(2):24.
 * Rapp DE. Integrating cultural competency into the undergraduate medical curriculum. Med Educ. 2006 Jul; 40(7): 704-10.
 * Rowland, ML, Bean, CY, Casamassimo, PS. A snapshot of cultural competency education in US dental schools. J Dent Educ. 2006 Sep; 70(9): 982-90.
 * Wilkinson JE. Use of a writing elective to teach cultural competency and professionalism. Fam Med. 2006 Nov-Dec;38(10):702-4.

Patient Safety and Health Care Disparities

 * Flores G, Ngui E. Racial/ethnic disparities and patient safety. Pediatr Clin North Am. 2006 Dec;53(6):1197-215.
 * Patient safety alert. Cultural understanding yields patient safety dividends. Healthcare Benchmarks Qual Improv. 2007 Oct;14(10):suppl 1-2.
 * Romeo C. Caring for culturally diverse patients: one agency's journey toward cultural competence. Home Healthc Nurse. 2007 Mar;25(3):206-13.
 * Sulman J, Kanee M, Stewart P, Savage D. Does difference matter? Diversity and human rights in a hospital workplace. Soc Work Health Care. 2007;44(3):145-59.
 * Whitley R. Cultural competence, evidence-based medicine, and evidence-based practices. Psychiatr Serv. 2007 Dec;58(12):1588-90.

Patient Nondisclosure

 * Hallenbeck J, Arnold R. A request for nondisclosure: don't tell mother. J Clin Oncol. 2007 Nov 1;25(31):5030-4.

Measuring Cultural Competency

 * Ho MJ, Lee KL. Reliability and validity of three cultural competency measures. Med Educ. 2007 May;41(5):519.
 * Thom DH, Tirado MD, Woon TL, McBride MR. Development and evaluation of a cultural competency training curriculum. BMC Med Educ. 2006 Jul 26; 6:38.

Cultural Competency - An Anthropologic View

 * Kleinman A, Benson P. Anthropology in the clinic: the problem of cultural competency and how to fix it. PLoS Med. 2006 Oct;3(10):e294.