Meeta Bhalla, Dora Dominguez-Diaz, Robert Brown, Forugh Homayounrooz
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Cultural awareness is the first step towards building cultural competence. 'he goal of our study was to evaluate the effect of a cultural awareness intervention among faculty and resi- dents in three residency programs at St. Vincent's Medical Center (SVMC). We conducted a pro- spective interventional quality improvement (Qj) project to study three areas pertaining to cultural awareness -knowledge, attitude, andenvironment, by means of a structured questionnaire adminis- tered at baseline and after intervention. 'The in- tervention consisted of participation in carefully designed bimonthly cultural awareness sessions focusing on one country or region at a time and included an introduction to language, food, music, economics, etc. 'here was a statistically significant difference in pre- and post-intervention responses to the questions pertaining to knowledge about dif- ferent cultures. The intervention was successful in decreasing the knowledge gap significantly and, in the process, also improved the participants' per- ception of the overall cultural experience in the program and hospital.
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The Connecticut State Medical Society (CSMS) is a federation of eight component county medical associations, with a total membership exceeding 7,000 physicians. CSMS itself is a constituent state entity of the American Medical Association. Founded by the physician-patriots of the American Revolution, the Society operates from a heritage of democratic principles embodied in its Charter and Bylaws. The base of all authority in CSMS is, of course, the individual physician member. It is the decisions of members in their own county associations that ultimately determine the nature of the Society"s policies and activities.
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