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BECOMING A PHYSICIAN Previous Volume 351:953-955 September 2, 2004 Number 10 Next

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As the United States becomes increasingly diverse, physicians will see patients from a variety of sociocultural backgrounds on a daily basis. Culture plays a large role in shaping health-related values, beliefs, and behavior. With the aim of providing physicians with the knowledge and skills to address "cross-cultural" challenges in clinical encounters, educational efforts in "cultural competence" have emerged. This field is not new, but it has been reenergized during the past decade as a result of pronouncements by the Institute of Medicine and the American Medical Association, among other organizations, that cultural competence is necessary for the effective practice of . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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From the Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School; and the Institute for Health Policy, Massachusetts General Hospital — both in Boston.

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