Clinical Training Experience

“But… what ARE you?” It was a question I encountered with discomfiting regularity. As a biracial child growing up in a working-class southern community, I was often the only non-white student in my classes. In this homogeneous town, my otherness stuck out like a sore thumb, and I learned from a young age that people can be unkind when they feel threatened by bucked conventions. Though I inhabited two cultures, I didn’t fit neatly in either. These experiences taught me the importance of inclusivity, and I developed a sensitivity for people deemed outsiders because of their differences. In college, these feelings became more acute when I learned that minority and multiracial patients often face specific medical challenges, and need culturally

I am a Brazilian black male with military experience and diplomatic knowledge who grew up in a low-income household in a developing country. In addition, I have traveled to about 35 countries and am acquainted with people from different socioeconomic backgrounds, religions, ethnic groups and nationalities. These characteristics and experiences allow me to see the world from perspectives that are unusual for most people. Besides being open-minded and non- judgemental toward all my future patients, I personally understand the difficulties faced by people of color, immigrants and individuals from low-income families. In sum, my background and my cultural literacy will allow me to be a sensitive and culturally aware patient-centered care.

Melanie Tervalon and Jann Murray-García differentiate cultural humility and cultural competence based upon the longevity involved in the pursuit of expertise in both concepts. They insinuate that cultural competence is based primarily on facts that generalize the behaviors of minorities and low-income populations receiving health care services. On the contrary, cultural humility places more importance on the provider’s personal awareness of their response to the individual needs of patients without constricting guidelines that overlook challenges involved in meeting their health concerns. Melanie Tervalon and Jann Murray-García mentioned that there is not an adequate amount of medical training aimed towards exposure to diverse populations.

In this great nation we live in today that has been vastly increasing diversity bring so many great opportunities. But with these great opportunities there are also challenges that are continually looked over constantly. One of the challenges is our health care system that fails to deliver culturally competent services. Cultural competency helps to enable providers to deliver services that are respectful to diverse patients. This helps with patients own health beliefs, practices and cultural and linguistic needs. This is why this training is needed in every health facility. Many doctors go through this problem not understanding their patient’s needs. If I were a doctor I would use this skill. Certain racial and ethnic minorities receive poorer

On February 9th, I attended an event where Dr. Renee Navarro was giving a speech about her personal story into the field of medicine and the obstacles she overcame as a Black woman. After she finished, I was in awe at how inspiring and encouraging her journey was. Dr. Navarro is a woman full of passion and resilience. Her journey was not easy in the slightest and being a minority made it harder for her to achieve her dreams. With all the odds against you, one is likely to give up. But, this was never the case for Dr. Navarro. She held an unwavering confidence and determination in herself that drove her to success and become the inspirational role model she is today. After listening to her path to success, I realized that some of my current

The best way to combat prior-held stereotypes that providers have about minorities in the clinical setting is to completely integrate it into their medical education. Cultural competency curricula in medical schools should not be an additional class or lesson added on top of their normal classes. It should be integrated into every lesson and every discussion about disease and medical care. They should be taught to consider how their actions in every step of the clinical encounter can contribute to health disparities, and how to work against

In 1978, the Medical program of the University of California had a dual admission’s program, one fore regular students and one for minority’s. The applicants for the minorities did not have to meet the standards that the regular admissions did. The special program was offered to African Americans, American Indians, Asians, and Espanics, but no white students were admitted. When Allan Bakke, a white male, submitted his application, he was rejected

My experience interacting with minorities and medically underserved individuals has taught me cultural competence by gradually learning the capacity to understand other people’s experiences and sufferings in a way I never had before. By working in family and free health clinics, and volunteering as an EMT and a hospice aide, I have personally seen some of the health disparities found in our world. I have witnessed how a lack of insurance, monetary income, or health education affects one’s decision to attain primary health care. Furthermore, my experiences with emergency medicine teams serving culturally diverse communities have helped me to be able to see how healthcare professionals handle crises while not losing the ability to think logically and rationally when striving to treat people’s illnesses, instead of focusing on their

I’ve consistently been engaged in the national fight against educational disparities in the collegiate student of color population. Not only in my formal education and career history, but also my personal life has been committed to exploring solutions to problems created within dynamics of multiculturalism, identity and social injustice. This is why I know the Multicultural Academic Advisor position is the perfect next professional step growing my career in student services and deepening my commitment of upholding my fraternal credo to uplift through enlightenment & education. My undergraduate education consisted of a combined media and cultural studies course history as an Afro-American Studies and Communication Arts major. This collective pair resulted in acquired cross-cultural relationship values and investments of personal identity sensitivity training including experiences with diverse people from different geographical, theological, and ideological backgrounds. Researching Afro-American Studies and Media Studies simultaneously required me to engage in scholastic discussion exploring the implications and effects race, gender, sexual orientation, disability, age and appearance not only have on my personal worldview but also that of other people in my community. Courses and seminars such as the Student Intercultural Dialogues Course or Ethnic Fest Celebration, Multicultural Conference On Race & Ethnicity, Race & Gender In America or

Evidence demonstrates that the scarcity of underrepresented minorities among physicians prevents appropriate cultural competence within the health care system, limits the access to quality health care services and medical research, and weakens efforts to eliminate current health disparities. One solution to the lack of diversity in the medical profession is an increase in the number of minority physicians, which causes for an increased enrollment and commencement of minority students in health care professional schools. This is easier said than done there is a relatively small number of academically prepared minority students in the pool of medical/health program applicants. To achieve even modest degrees of diversity, admission standards need not be lowered but greater weight must be placed on other equally important indicators of merit when evaluating many underrepresented minority applicants. The United States government also plays an important role with funded programs that are aimed in increasing the representation of minorities in the health profession, such as the loan forgiveness program and other strategies through the Health Resources and Services Administration

Throughout my experience of clinical rotation time I have witnessed several scenarios and I also learned the need of special skills such as empathy and communication that are required to be used in the medical environment. There were some parts that I enjoyed and loved a lot, then there were parts in which I did not like so much. However, through my clinical rotation time I have an idea of whether or not I would want to pursue a career in the medical field. To start, the first thing that I liked the most about my clinical rotation was that I got to witness, nurses, doctors and specialists altogether help people become better.

Anderson, P. A., Gill, P. S., Greenfield, S. M., & Loudon, R. F. (1999). Educating medical students for work in culturally diverse societies. Journal of American Medical Association, 282. 875-880.

Recognizing that ethnic identity is only one facet of diversity. My clinical practices involve serving many individuals who have diverse personal and cultural identities. During case conceptualization I routinely ask clients to describe their own values and perspectives to add to my understanding while increasing their comfort. As I serve an increasingly diverse population, keen observation and feedback from clients will continue to illuminate pathways to expanding my awareness and understanding. I see no end to my professional journey to provide culturally responsive

One of important source of Physiotherapist knowledge is the patient, listening to the patient considers one of the essential profession skills. The main focus in interview is having the patient tell his or her story rather than having the therapists initiate a series of questions to which the patient must respond. Experts confirmed this in their interviews (Jensen, Gwyer, Shepard, & Hack, 2000).The therapist may ask the patient to briefly demonstrate the activity or positions that cause pain, because mechanism of injury is very importance in detecting the condition and diagnoses the type of injury. In Acromioclavicular (AC) the most common mechanism

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