National Consortium for Multicultural Education for Health Professionals Annual M

描述(由申请人提供)： 该项目将支持国家卫生专业人员多元文化教育联盟(联盟)的年度会议，加强合作网络，并优化该联盟的影响。该联盟最初于2004年由NHLBI/NIH资助，作为面向美国医学院的竞争性五年期培训奖励计划(K07)，该联盟使用的方法是通过将跨文化教育整合到卫生专业培训中来解决差距。该联盟的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。联合会成员个人和集体参与卫生专业教育的课程开发、实施、评估和向卫生专业人员传播课程。到目前为止，财团年度方案会议在合作项目、调查和确定研究差距方面取得了成功。该联盟加强了对个别教育工作者的支持，并扩大了他们个别工作的影响范围。三分之二的私人投资机构与其他联合会成员一起参加了多个地点的研究，这是解决体制执行方面的一些挑战的一个办法。这些调查结果突显了继续我们的年度联合会会议的价值。拟议会议的一个中心纵向主题将是确定战略，以产生以实践为基础的研究，帮助教育工作者和实践者评估和联系以患者为中心的结果。头三次年度会议将集中讨论文化能力教育中未得到充分重视的领域(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实践(2013年)、卫生系统改革和专业间培训(2014年)。重点将放在可持续性的讨论上，并集中在慢性病患者的结局上。每一次年会都是为期两天的会议，第二天专门举办技能建设讲习班。将根据前几年的需求评估，进一步完善技能培养讲习班的专题。在文献回顾和讨论的基础上，将在第五年编写系统评价。公共卫生相关性：人们越来越多地认识到健康状况、获取途径和服务提供方面的明显差距，这促使人们呼吁更好地为未来的卫生专业人员做好应对这些挑战的准备。将健康职业教育的成功结果与以患者为中心的结果联系起来的研究很少。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战略。

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.