PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - , 
TI  - Culturally Effective Pediatric Care: Education and Training Issues
AID  - 10.1542/peds.103.1.167
DP  - 1999 Jan 01
TA  - Pediatrics
PG  - 167--170
VI  - 103
IP  - 1
4099  - http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/103/1/167.short
4100  - http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/103/1/167.full
SO  - Pediatrics1999 Jan 01; 103
AB  - This policy statement defines culturally effective health care and describes its importance for pediatrics. The statement also defines cultural effectiveness, cultural sensitivity, and cultural competence and describes the importance of these concepts for training in medical school, residency, and continuing medical education. The statement is based on the premise that culturally effective health care is important and that the knowledge and skills necessary for providing culturally effective health care can be taught and acquired through 1) educational courses and other formats developed with the expressed purpose of addressing cultural competence and/or cultural sensitivity, and 2) educational components on cultural competence and/or cultural sensitivity that are incorporated into medical school, residency, and continuing medical education curricula.