Twelve tips for teaching diversity and embedding it in the medical curriculum

Abstract

Despite growing recognition of the need to increase cultural diversity undergraduate education in the UK, the US and Canada, there is a lack of cohesion in the development and delivery of cultural diversity teaching in medical schools in these three countries. This article highlights 12 tips for developing cultural diversity education in undergraduate medical programmes by integrating it in institutional policies, curriculum content, faculty development and assessment. These tips can be used to help ensure that students gain needed knowledge, skills and attitudes consistent with a view of patients as complex individuals with unique needs.

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Nisha Dogra

Nisha Dogra BM, DCH, FRPSych, MA, PhD is a Senior Lecturer in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Greenwood Institute of Child Health, University of Leicester.

Sylvia Reitmanova

Sylvia Reitmanova MD, MSC is a PhD candidate in Community Health in the Division of Community Health and Humanities, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Olivia Carter-Pokras

Olivia Carter-Pokras BS, MHS, PhD is an Associate Professor, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of Maryland School of Public Health.