Abstract:In recent years, cultural competency instruction has become an important component of the medical education curriculum. [1][2][3][4][5] The push to include cultural competence is, in part, a response to the prediction that by 2060, less than half of the US population will identify ethnically as non-Hispanic White, and almost a third of the population will be Hispanic. 6 It is also expected that the number of individuals with limited proficiency in English will increase. 6 Such demographic changes make cultural… Show more
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