Providing Care with Cultural, Racial, and Ethnic Humility: the Framework for an Additional Entrustable Professional Activity

Irfan A Khan; Nicholas B Conway; Maryam Ali; Christina Rios; Cheryl L Holder; Vivian T Obeso

doi:10.1007/s40670-022-01513-0

Providing Care with Cultural, Racial, and Ethnic Humility: the Framework for an Additional Entrustable Professional Activity

Med Sci Educ. 2022 Feb 1;32(2):283-285. doi: 10.1007/s40670-022-01513-0. eCollection 2022 Apr.

Authors

Irfan A Khan¹, Nicholas B Conway¹, Maryam Ali¹, Christina Rios^{1

2}, Cheryl L Holder¹, Vivian T Obeso¹

Affiliations

¹ Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine, Florida International University, Miami, USA.
² Department of Psychiatry, College of Medicine, University of Kentucky, Lexington, USA.

Abstract

Healthcare inequities are rampant in the USA. There is a lack of standardization for training medical students in providing care with cultural, racial, and ethnic humility. This innovation is the framework of an entrustable professional activity that can be utilized to address this vital issue.

Keywords: Entrustable professional activity; Health inequities; Physician competencies; Social accountability; Undergraduate medical education.