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Lorna Hayward, Associate Professor, Northeastern University l.hayward@neu.edu]
 * The intersection of cultural competence and professional role formation:**  **A curricular model for global service delivery**



** Keywords: **International service learning, cultural competence, health, physical therapy, professional role formation

** Track: **Student development and learning

** Format: **Research paper

**Date & time:** Friday 9:30-10:40 **Location:** Wilson

**Summary:** Globalization has impacted the healthcare field where racial and ethnic minorities in the US experience lower quality of health care, more undesirable procedures, and inequalities in routine medical services. It has therefore been recommended that all health care professionals receive cultural competence training for developing effective patient centered care that is culturally focused. To address this concern, the authors created an innovative educational model that is theoretically based and comprised of a yearlong capstone course including academic preparation and a short-term international service learning (ISL) experience. Our curricular Model, informed by Purnell and Campinha-Bacote’s Models of Cultural Competence, was comprised of a yearlong capstone course, including research on culture, production of an evidence based practice report and a week long international service learning experience at an orphanage in Quito, Ecuador. Impact of the Model was assessed using the Professionalism in Physical Therapy Core Values survey and Cross Cultural Adaptability Inventory and through reflective papers. Using a mixed methods approach, pre post design was used employing both quantitative and qualitative data collection methods. The authors attempted to answer the research question: “Does the proposed curricular model promote cultural competence and professional role formation in students enrolled in a doctorate of physical therapy program (DPT)?”

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Campinha-Bacote J. (2002). The process of cultural competence in the delivery of healthcare services: A model of care. //Journal of Transcultural Nursing, 13//(3). 181-184.

Campinha-Bacote J, Claymore-Cuny D, Cora-Bramble D, Gilbert J, Husbands RM, Like RC, Llerena-Quinn R, Lu FG, Stubblefield-Tave B, Tang G. (2005). //Transforming the face of health professions through cultural and linguistic competence education: The role of the HRSA centers of excellence//. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Health Resources and Services Administration. Retrieved from [|http://] [|www.hrsa.gov/culturalcompetence/cultcompedu.pdf]

 Purnell L. (2005). The Purnell model for cultural competence. //Journal of Multicultural Nursing & Health, 11//(2). 7-15.

Smedley B., Stith A. Y., & Nelson, A. R. (Eds.). (2003). //Unequal treatment: Confronting racial and ethnic disparities in health care.// Washington, DC: National Academic Press.

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