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Session: Cultural Competency/Diversity: The Final Frontier in U.S. Healthcare: Academic Preparedness From a Multicultural Point of View
4142.0: Tuesday, November 9, 2004: 12:30 PM-2:00 PM
Oral
Cultural Competency/Diversity: The Final Frontier in U.S. Healthcare: Academic Preparedness From a Multicultural Point of View
Perhaps changing the way disease and patients are described will change the way medical students, physicians, and allied health professionals approach the sick patient.
Learning Objectives: Describe the impact of workforce shortages on quality of care and cost, and recognition of ethnic based presentation of various diseases which have fostered attitudes of medical practitioners, as well as understanding social separation in education.
Presider(s):Andrew James, DrPH, JD
12:30 PMCommunity/Academia partnership: Building career ladders for Public Health Professionals  [ Recorded presentation ]
Riché C. Zamor, MS, MPH, PhD
12:48 PMDo We Teach Racism in Medical School?
Joye M. Carter, BA, MD
1:06 PMAre we educating an adequate number of allied health workers to meet future needs?
SA Chapman, PhD, V Lindler, MS, Lorraine Y Woo, BS
1:24 PMHealth services in a Juvenile Justice Setting: Who, what, when, why?  [ Recorded presentation ]
Marisela Gomez, PhDMDMPH
1:42 PMSocial Separation in America: The Failure of Brown v. The Board and its Public Health Implications
Andrew James, MD, JD, Donald K. Hill, JD, LLM
See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information.
Organized by:Health Administration
Endorsed by:Chiropractic Health Care; Community Health Planning and Policy Development; Maternal and Child Health; Public Health Education and Health Promotion; Socialist Caucus
CE Credits:CME, Health Education (CHES), Nursing

The 132nd Annual Meeting (November 6-10, 2004) of APHA