Cultural Competency

NEW YORK — A key role for psychiatrists is assessing the mental health needs of a community affected by natural disaster, Elspeth Cameron Ritchie, MD, MPH, told Healio at the American Psychiatric Association annual meeting.

“Is it all worth it?” reads the title of the Reddit post from an international medical graduate community. I wake up to these posts ever so frequently; I think to myself and slide the notification away.

Diversity in health care is critical as our communities become more diverse in race, ethnicity and culture.

DALLAS — In this Healio video exclusive, Fatima Cody Stanford, MD, MPH, MPA, MBA, FAAP, FACP, FAHA, FAMWA, FTOS, discusses cultural competency with regard to obesity care.

Diabetes has emerged as a worldwide health crisis, affecting a diverse set of demographically distinct patients with varying levels of severity. Balancing norms and evidence-based practices with sensitivity is key to culturally competent diabetes care.

Patients who used a culturally intentional mental health care system reaped clinically significant benefits, according to a company press release.

In this episode, host Shikha Jain, MD, speaks with Raj Sundar, MD, about cultural competency and humility in medicine, building a healing relationship with patients and more.

BALTIMORE — Providers must recognize and respect the culture of their patients with diabetes to deliver a strong level of care, according to a speaker at the Association of Diabetes Care & Education Specialists Annual Conference.

In this Healio video series, which focuses on cultural competency in the treatment of inflammatory bowel disease, Shaji Sebastian, MD, FRCP, discusses IBD incidence in South Asian countries and advances in research and care for patients.

In this Healio video series, which focuses on cultural competency in the treatment of inflammatory bowel disease, patient advocate Madhura Balasubramaniam shares her experience living with Crohn’s disease in India.