National Consortium for Multicultural Education for Health Professionals Annual M

描述（由申请人提供）： 该项目将支持全国卫生专业人员多文化教育联合会（联合会）的年度会议，加强合作网络，并优化联合会的影响。该联盟最初于2004年由NHLBI/NIH资助，作为美国医学院的竞争性五年培训奖励计划（K 07），该联盟通过将跨文化教育融入卫生专业培训来解决差异。联合会的18所学校正处于不同的实施阶段，第一波的资金将于2009年结束。联合会成员单独和集体参与卫生专业教育课程的制定、实施和评价，以及向卫生专业人员传播课程。迄今为止，联盟年度计划会议在合作项目、调查和确定研究差距方面取得了成功。联合会加强了对教育工作者个人的支持，扩大了他们个人工作的影响范围。三分之二的参与者与其他联合会成员一起参加了多地点研究，这是解决体制执行方面一些挑战的一个办法。这些发现强调了继续我们的年度联盟会议的价值。拟议会议的一个中心纵向主题将是确定战略，以产生基于实践的研究，这将有助于教育工作者和从业人员在评估和联系以病人为中心的结果。前三次年度会议将重点关注文化能力教育中未得到充分处理的领域（由另一个合作项目产生）：健康差距（2010年）、社区战略（2011年）、偏见和陈规定型观念（2012年）。最后两年将侧重于反思性做法（2013年），以及卫生系统变革和跨专业培训（2014年）。重点将放在可持续性的讨论，并集中在慢性病患者的结果。每年的年会将是一个为期两天的会议，第二天专门用于技能建设讲习班。将根据前几年的需求评估进一步完善技能建设讲习班的主题。第五年将根据文献综述和讨论撰写系统综述。公共卫生相关性：越来越多的人认识到，在健康状况、获取和服务提供方面存在着有据可查的差距，这促使人们呼吁更好地为未来的卫生专业人员做好准备，以应对这些挑战。有一个缺乏的研究，卫生专业教育的成功成果，以病人为中心的结果。这些会议将有助于确定评估以患者为中心的结果并将其与教育联系起来的策略。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This project will support annual meetings of the National Consortium for Multicultural Education for Health Professionals (Consortium), enhance the collaborative network, and optimize the Consortium's impact. Initially funded in 2004 by NHLBI/NIH as a competitive five-year training award program (K07) for U.S. medical schools, the Consortium uses the approach of addressing disparities by integrating cross-cultural education into health professional training. The 18 schools in the Consortium are in different stages of implementation, with the funding for the first wave ending in 2009. Consortium members engage individually and collectively in curriculum development, implementation, evaluation in health professional education, and dissemination of curriculum to health professionals. Consortium annual program meetings, to date, have resulted in success in collaborative projects, surveys and in identification of research gaps. The Consortium has provided enhanced support for individual educators, and expanded the scope of impact of their individual work. Two-thirds of PIs participated in multi-site studies with other Consortium members, one solution to some of the challenges of institutional implementation. These findings underscore the value of continuing our annual Consortium meetings. One central longitudinal theme of the proposed meetings will be to identify strategies to generate practice-based research that will assist educators and practitioners in assessing and linking patient-centered outcomes. The first three annual meetings will focus on under-addressed areas in cultural competency education (as generated by another collaborative project): health disparities (2010), community strategies (2011), bias and stereotyping (2012). The last two years will focus on reflective practice (2013), and health systems change and inter-professional training (2014). Emphasis will be paid to discussions on sustainability, and centered on patient outcomes in chronic disease. Each of the annual meetings will be a two-day meeting, with the second day devoted to a skills-building workshop. Topics for skill-building workshops will be further refined based upon needs assessments from previous years. Systematic reviews will be written in the fifth year based on literature reviews and discussion. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: Increasing recognition of well-documented disparities in health status, access and service delivery have fueled calls to better prepare future health professionals to address these challenges. There is a paucity of research that links successful outcomes of health professions education to patient-centered outcomes. These meetings will help identify strategies in assessing and linking patient-centered outcomes to education.