Achieving Cultural Competency: A Case-Based Approach to Training Health Professionals

Editors: Horace DeLisser, MD, Lisa Hark, PhD, RD, Gail Morrison, MD
Associate Editors: Debbie Salas-Lopez, MD, MPH FACP, Ana Nunez, MD, Darwin Deen, MS, MD, Desiree Lie, MD and Olivia Carter-Pokras, PhD

"The aim of this book is to provide the necessary tools to meet the ever growing need that health professionals in training and practice have to become culturally competent. Twenty-five self-study cases are presented on a variety of medical topics, including cardiovascular, pulmonary, neurology, oncology, hematology, immunology, and pediatric disorders. Learners will not only gain knowledge, but have direct insight into real life, actual scenarios that occurr in clinical settings. Cultural factors covered within the cases include cultural diversity plus gender, language, folk beliefs, socioeconomic status, religion, and sexual orientation."

This book is an approved CME-certifying activity to meet physicians™ cultural competency state requirements. For more information about CME (click here). There are no additional charges for CME credits. All directions to complete the CME process are in the book.

Table of Contents

Case 1: The Case of Ruth Franklin. 40-year-old African-American woman with heart failure.
Susan Wiegers

Case 2: The Case of Carl Jones. 48-year-old homeless Caucasian man with chest pain and lung cancer.
Lisa Bellini

Case 3: The Case of Maria Morales. 57-year-old Mexican woman with type 2 diabetes.
Desiree Lie and Charles Vega

Case 4: The Case of Maya Mohammad. 16-year-old Arab-American teenager with leukemia.
Lyuba Konopasek, Alex Chou, and Amal Khidir

Case 5: The Case of Jon Le. 48-year-old Korean man with cerebral hemorrhage.
Scott Kasner and Horace DeLisser

Case 6: The Case of Nadia Rosenberg. 45-year-old Russian woman with drug-resistant tuberculosis.
Elena Atochina-Vasserman and Helen Abramova

Case 7: The Case of Isabel Delgado. 47-year-old Dominican woman with hypertension.
Debbie Salez-Lopez and Eric Gertner

Case 8: The Case of George Dennis. 35-year-old African-American man with AIDS.
Ronald Collman

Case 9: The Case of Mary Jones. 2-year-old Caucasian girl with delayed speech development.
Dodi Meyer, Hetty Cunningham, Rica Mauricio, and Alexandra Schieber

Case 10: The Case of Priya Krishnamurthy. 73-year-old Asian-Indian woman with a stroke.
Scott Kasner, Roy Hamilton, Sashank Prasad, and Steven Messe

Case 11: The Case of Carlos Cruz. 34-year-old Mexican man with sleep apnea and metabolic syndrome.
Indira Gurubhagavatula, Lisa Hark, and Sharon Drozdowsky

Case 12: The Case of Denise Smith. 41-year-old Caucasian woman with asthma.
John Sanchez, Nelson Sanchez, and Ana Nunez

Case 13: The Case of Mae Ling Chung. 22-year-old Chinese immigrant woman with an arranged marriage.
Elizabeth Lee-Rey and Nereida Correa

Case 14: The Case of Earl Collins. 73-year-old African-American man with lung cancer.
Mitchell Margolis and Lisa Bellini

Case 15: The Case of Irma Matos. 66-year-old Ecuadorian woman with type 2 diabetes and hypertension.
Edgar Maldonado and Debbie Salas-Lopez

Case 16: The Case of Eileen Clark. 82-year-old African-American woman with a stroke.
Scott Kasner and Horace DeLisser

Case 17: The Case of Leslie O’Malley. 66-year-old Irish-American man with breast cancer.
Eric Russell

Case 18: The Case of Juana Caban. 21-year-old Puerto Rican woman who is pregnant and HIV+.
Lisa Rucker, Nadine Katz, and Nicholas Sibinga

Case 19: The Case of Alice Gregory. 71-year-old African-American woman with aortic stenosis.
Susan Wiegers

Case 20: The Case of Sunil Guha. 32-year-old Asian-Indian man with metabolic syndrome.
Fran Burke and Lisa Hark

Case 21: The Case of Pepper Hawthorne. 19-year-old Caucasian woman with a stroke.
Scott Kasner

Case 22: The Case of Alika Nkuutu. 24-year-old African woman with sickle cell disease.
Eric Russell

Case 23: The Case of Miguel Cortez. 9-year-old Mexican boy with asthma.
Noel Rosales

Case 24: The Case of Naomi Fulton. 49-year-old African-American woman with metabolic syndrome.
Gail Morrison and Lisa Hark

Case 25: The Case of Bobby Napier. 68-year-old rural Appalachian man with type 2 diabetes.
Elizabeth Lee-Rey, Sonia Crandall, and Thomas Arcury

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