Assessing Deaf Cultural Competency of Physicians and Medical Students

• DOI: 10.1007/s13187-010-0144-4
• Publication Date: 2010-07-21T20:22:41Z
• Authors: Lisa Hoang; Sheila F. LaHousse; Melanie C. Nakaji; Georgia Robins Sa...
• Keywords: Medicine(all); Physician-Patient Relations; Students, Medical; Education, Medical; Teaching; 4. Education; Cultural Diversity; 02 engineering and technology; Article; 3. Good health; Persons With Hearing Impairments; Professional Competence; Neoplasms; Physicians; 0202 electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering; Humans; Cultural Competency; Healthcare Disparities

The Medical Students, Cancer Control, and the Deaf Community Training program (DCT) intended to create physicians who were culturally competent care for deaf patients evaluated. DCT medical students (n = 22), UCSD faculty 131), non-DCT 211) anonymously surveyed about their perceptions related patients, cultural competency, interpreter use. displayed less knowledge than students. These findings suggest that training in competency can significantly increase capacity community members reduce health disparities experienced by this community.