Integrating Cultural Humility Into Your Learning Environment

Proposal: Healthcare has been challenged by the rising inequities in healthcare access and outcomes in the past few decades and medical education’s response has included an emphasis on cultural humility training and the development of cultural competence standards. The AAMC responded to the need to address cultural competence through its Cultural Competence Education for Medical Students publication and development of the Tool for Assessing Cultural Competence Training (TACCT) tool in 2000, with revised tools in 2009 and 2015. In 2022 the AAMC released the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Competencies Across the Learning Continuum guide to help the development and assessment of curriculum. While these foundational tools are essential, implementation and integration of cultural humility curriculum is complex and nuanced. This workshop will rally participants to understand and utilize these foundational tools to assess their own learning environment and curriculum for cultural humility and provide additional strategies and tools developed at the Hackensack Meridian School of Medicine. Participants will have an opportunity to identify and apply key strategies to effect change in their unique learning settings, including embracing an organizational and systemic approach for the integration of cultural humility into medical education.

Michal Divney- I am a seasoned lecturer and workshop leader, with my most recent presentation being at the 2023 AMA Change Med Ed Conference.

Lawrence Rosen- I have 30 years of international experience presenting workshops for UME, GME and faculty development, including NEGEA 2023.

Carmela Rocchetti- As Assistant Dean of Community Engaged Medical education I have led countless workshops focused on community engagement, teaching UME students and faculty, teaching GME students and faculty, and have received invitations to present workshops, deliver oral presentations, and showcase posters at regional and national conferences including AMA Change Med Ed, AMA Health Systems Science Summit and NEGEA.