CME Listings
Using CLAS Standards and Cultural Competence to Mitigate Minority Health Disparities: An Introduction
Virtual Lecture Hall
1.5
AMA PRA Category 1
Interactive Online Course
$25/credit hour
May 1, 2015 00:00
4/30/2017
Objectives:
- Define “health disparities” and how they disproportionately affect ethnic and racial minority populations in the United States
- Describe the National Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Services (CLAS) standards of the USDHHS Office of Minority Health and how they impact the ethical responsibilities of medical service providers
- Recognize that “ethnicity,” “race,” and “culture” are fluid categories that overlap and also include other aspects of identity that can include religion, sexual orientation, gender, class, etc
- Describe the practice of “cultural competence” in the health care setting
- Utilize the 7 basic components of asthma care and management according the National Asthma Education and Prevention Program (2007)
- Successfully navigate a Mexican American patient with limited English proficiency through the process of establishing culturally and linguistically care and obtaining referrals for treatment of her asthma