Resources

Select References for Cultural Competence/Sensitivity in Medical Practice

ACGME. Institutional Review Committee Institutional Requirements.http://www.acgme.org/acWebsite/irc/irc_IRCpr703.asp#IC .   Accessed 1/3/ 2006. Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education, Chicago, 2004.

ACS Statement of principles. http://www.facs.org/fellows_info/statements/stonprin.html .   Accessed 1/3/ 2006.  American College of Surgeons, Chicago, 2006.

ACS statement on principles guiding care at the end of life. Bull Am Coll Surg, 83:46, 1998.

American Board of Surgery, Inc. Booklet of Information. July 2001—June 2002.

Philadelphia: Office of the Secretary, American Board of Surgery, p. 22, 2001.

Bohannan, Elizabeth.  Return to Laughter. New York: Doubleday, 1964.

Joseph R. Betancourt. “Cultural Competence — Marginal or Mainstream Movement?” NEJM, 2 Sept 2004.

CAMH: Comprehensive Accreditation Manual for Hospitals; the Official Handbook. Standard Rl.1.2. 7 "The hospital addresses care at the end of life...responding to the psychological, social, emotional, spiritual and cultural concerns of  the patient and the family" (updated 1/1/97); Standard Rl.1.3.5 "pastoral care and other spiritual services"  (updated 1/2/98). Oakbrook Terrace, IL: Joint Commission on Accreditation of Health Care Organizations, updated regularly.

Cross-Cultural Medicine. Ed. by Judy Ann Bigby.  Philadelphia: American College of Physicians, 2003.

Cultural Competency in Medical Education: A Guidebook for Schools. U.S. Dept. of Health & Human Services, Health Resources and Services Administration, 2004. http://www.ask.hrsa.gov/downloads/CulturalCompBHP00208.pdf (Accessed 16 May 2006).

Culture Clues: Russian, Latino, Albanian, Vietnamese, Korean, African-American information sheets http://depts.washington.edu/pfes/cultureclues.html .

Culture Grams: fee for service online information by country (limited free information) http://www.culturegrams.com/  Accessed 3/14/2006.

DeStefano, Anthony. Latino Folk Medicine. New York: Ballantine Books, 2001.

“Ensuring culturally effective pediatric care: implications for education and health policy”. (Policy Statement). Pediatrics, v114:i6 p1677 (9) Dec 2004. 

EthnoMed: Univ. of Washington website with many cultural profiles and resources http://ethnomed.org .

Fadiman, Ann. The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures. New York: Noonday; Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1997.

Freire, Paulo. Pedagogy of the Oppressed. New York: Continuum, 1970.

Galanti, Geri-Ann. Caring for Patients from Different Cultures: Case Studies from American Hospitals.  Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1997.

Gardenswartz, Lee et al. The Global Diversity Desk Reference: Managing an International Workforce. San Francisco: Pfeiffer/John Wiley, 2003.

Geisler, E. M. Pocket Guide to Cultural Assessment, 2nd Ed. St. Louis: Mosby, 1998.

Genao I, Bussey-Jones J, Brady D, Branch WT Jr, Corbie-Smith G. Building the case for cultural competence. Am J Med Sci. 2003 Sep;326(3):136-40.

Gropper, Rena C. Culture and the Clinical Encounter: an Intercultural Sensitizer for the Health Professions. Yarmouth, Maine: Intercultural Press, Inc., 1996.

Hispanic Health. http://hogarhispano.homestead.com/HispanicHealth.htm. Accessed 3/7/2006.

IRB Research guidelines: 4.3 Cultural Issues https://www.citiprogram.org/members/courseandexam/moduletext.asp?strKeyID=22171CEA-B227-40E8-9E5B-95BC14841B91-773784 . Accessed 3/7/ 2006.

McLean, Una. Magical Medicine: Nigerian Case-Study. London: Penguin, 1974.

Neff,  Nancy. Folk Medicine in Hispanics in the Southwestern United States http://www.rice.edu/projects/HispanicHealth/Courses/mod7/mod7.html  .  Accessed 3/7/ 2006.

Provider's Handbook on Culturally Competent Care: African American Population. Kaiser Permanente, 1999.

Provider's Handbook on Culturally Competent Care: Asian and Pacific Island American Population. Kaiser Permanente, 1999.

Provider's Handbook on Culturally Competent Care: Latino Population. Kaiser Permanente, 1999

Provider's Handbook on Culturally Competent Care: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgendered Population. Kaiser Permanente, 1999.   

Ray, O. “How the mind hurts and heals the body.” American Psychologist 59:29-40, 2004.

Smedley, B.D., Stith, A.Y., Nelson, A.R. Unequal Treatment: Confronting Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health Care. Washington DC: The National Academies Press, 2003.

Spector, Rachel E. Cultural Diversity in Health & Illness.  6th Ed. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson/Prentice Hall, 2004.

Tarpley, John and Margaret Tarpley.  “How can medical students be prepared for international rotations?”  Virtual Mentor 8:818-825, 2006. http://www.ama-assn.org/ama/pub/category/17066.html (Accessed 27 February 2007).

Tarpley, JL, Margaret Tarpley, Patsy Meier, Don Meier.  Surgical Volunteerism--A “Busman’s” Holiday. Surgical Rounds.  In Press.

Tarpley, JL, Margaret Tarpley, Don Meier. An Alternative Vacation: Surgical Volunteerism. Surgical Clinics of North America. In Press.

Transcultural Health Care: a Culturally Competent Approach. 2nd Ed. Ed. by Larry D. Purnell, Betty J. Paulanka. Philadelphia: F.A. Davis, 2003.

World Health Organization. Health for All in the 21^st Century. EB101/8, p.v,1998.