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Training of Medical Professionals and the Delivery of Health Care as Related to Cultural Identity Groups
Author(s) -
Carol Jack Scott,
Marcus Martin,
Glenn Hamilton
Publication year - 2003
Publication title -
academic emergency medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.221
H-Index - 124
eISSN - 1553-2712
pISSN - 1069-6563
DOI - 10.1197/s1069-6563(03)00481-0
Subject(s) - ethnic group , hogan , multiculturalism , medicine , health care , citation , family medicine , library science , psychology , sociology , political science , law , pedagogy , anthropology , computer science
Publication of the Institute of Medicine's Unequal Treatment: Confronting Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health Care 1 gives us renewed opportunity to discuss differences in the training of medical professionals and the delivery of health care as they relate to cultural identity groups. Since the early 1990s, emergency physicians have explored these important issues at annual meetings of the American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP) and the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine (SAEM) 2-4 and in published articles. 5-7 In 1996, ACEP/SAEM included "diversity" as a line item in its core content curriculum, 8 making our specialty among the first to incorporate this concept formally into our teachings. SAEM published a position statement on diversity in 2000 that stated the following: “The Society for Academic Emergency Medicine (SAEM) believes that attaining diversity in emergency medicine residencies and faculty that reflect our multicultural society is a desirable and achievable goal. SAEM encourages all academic medical centers to recruit, retain, and advance a faculty reflective of the community served. SAEM encourages its members to respect, support, and embrace the existing cultural differences of its membership. SAEM encourages the development of didactic, educational, research, and other programs to assist academic emergency medicine departments to improve the diversity of their faculties and residencies.” 9