Webcast

Foundational Principles of Cultural Humility and Safety in Health Care Delivery

Launch Date
05/03/2023
Credit Amount
1.0
Credit Expires
05/03/2025

Faculty

Monica E. Peek, MD, MPH, MSc
(she/her/hers)
Ellen H. Block Professor of Health Justice in the Department of Medicine
Associate Director, Chicago Center for Diabetes Translation Research
Director of Research, MacLean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics
The University of Chicago
Chicago, IL
Monica E. Peek, MD, MPH, MSc

Monica Peek, MD, MPH, MSc is an Ellen H. Block Professor of Health Justice in the Department of Medicine. She is also the Associate Director, Chicago Center for Diabetes Translation Research, and Director of Research, MacLean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics. She is a practicing internist, medical educator, and clinician investigator. Her research pursues health equity and social justice, with a focus on promoting equitable doctor/patient relationships among racial minorities, integrating the medical and social needs of patients, and addressing health care discrimination and structural racism impacting health outcomes (e.g., diabetes, COVID-19). Dr. Peek has authored more than 200 peer-reviewed publications and abstracts on health care disparities, diversity, and bias; has been the principal investigator of multiple grants to address health disparities; and has been invited to speak at numerous local and national medical meetings.

Charles Vega, MD, FAAFP
Clinical Professor
UC Irvine Department of Family Medicine
Assistant Dean for Culture and Community Education
Director, Program in Medical Education for the Latino Community (PRIME-LC)
UC Irvine School of Medicine
Irvine, CA
Charles Vega, MD, FAAFP

Charles Vega, MD grew up in Northern California and completed his undergraduate degree at Harvard University. He attended medical school at the University of Wisconsin Madison and completed residency training in Family Medicine at University of California Irvine (UCI). He remained as faculty in the Department of Family Medicine at UCI and now holds the title of Health Sciences Clinical Professor. He is the Executive Director of UCI’s Program in Medical Education for the Latino Community and won a Macy Faculty Scholarship to improve patient-centered health education at UCI. He currently serves as Assistant Dean for Culture and Community Education in the UCI School of Medicine.

Dr. Vega has seen patients and taught medical students and residents at UCI Health Family Health Center, Santa Ana for the past 20 years. This clinic is a federally qualified health center and the largest safety-net clinic for Orange County. Dr. Vega’s academic interests are focused on access to quality, compassionate medical care for underserved populations, and the development of training programs to promote this vision of healthcare.

Monica Vela, MD, FACP
(she/her/hers)
Professor of Medicine
Department of Medical Education
Director, Hispanic Center of Excellence
Associate Editor, JAMA Network Open
University of Illinois College of Medicine
Chicago, IL
Monica Vela, MD, FACP

Monica Vela, MD recently joined the University of Illinois College of Medicine as Professor of Medicine and Director of the Hispanic Center of Excellence. She also serves as Associate Editor for JAMA Network Open. She is the former Associate Vice Chair for Diversity and Associate Dean at University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine. She has spent the last 16 years directing a required course for first year medical students entitled, “Health Disparities: Equity and Advocacy,” which provides a structural competency foundation and advocacy training. Her coursework is the only course in the extant literature shown to improve diversity of the medical school applicants and improve the cultural climate among medical students.

Dr. Vela has been selected by Pritzker students for a Favorite Faculty Award 9 times since 2010 for her teaching. Her research spans medical education on health disparities and care of limited-English proficiency patients, as well as diversity in the medical profession. In 2012, she won the American College of Physician’s National Award for Diversity and Access to Care. In 2014, she was awarded the Society of General Internal Medicine National Herbert Nickens Award for Diversity and Minority Health as well as the inaugural Alpha Omega Alpha Fellow in Leadership Award. Also that year, she was awarded the University of Chicago Distinguished Faculty Award for Community Service. She was awarded the 2019 University of Chicago Diversity Leadership Award and was honored during the University’s annual Martin Luther King, Jr. commemoration.

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Statement of Need

The United States comprises a diverse landscape of viewpoints and beliefs, religious practices, cultures, and peoples. Despite the continual growth of the country’s diverse profile, racial and ethnic underserved populations are disproportionately impacted by cultural ignorance, disparities, and health inequities. Without adopting and actively incorporating cultural humility into daily practices and interactions with patients, the medical community lacks the ability to provide safe places in which patients are able to access culturally respectful medical care, deteriorating the patient experience and compromising patient outcomes.

In this CME Outfitters webcast, expert faculty will discuss the principles of cultural humility and awareness, impact of unconscious and implicit bias, and critical importance of self-evaluation, personal accountability, and continual learning to enhance medical care and patient outcomes. This webcast will provide actionable strategies to promote change within the provider and the practice, laying the foundation to improve health equity.

Learning Objectives

  • Outline the impact of both cultural humility and reduced implicit bias on patient experience.
  • Adopt self-evaluation, self-reflection, and cultural awareness practices to improve interactions with patients, caregivers, and the care team.
  • Integrate actionable learning strategies continually into practice to promote positive change and enhance delivery of care in patient interactions.

Financial Support

Supported by an educational grant from CareSource.

Target Audience

Physicians, nurses, nurse practitioners (NPs), pharmacists, physician associates (PAs), social workers, and other health care professionals within the CareSource network.

Credit Information

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Interprofessional (IPCE) 1.0

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Physicians (ACCME) 1.0

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Nurses (ANCC) 1.0

This activity is designated for 1.0 contact hour.

Note for California Nurses

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Pharmacists (ACPE) 1.0

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Activity UAN: JA0007185-0000-23-033-H99-P

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Social Work (ACE) 1.0

As a Jointly Accredited Organization, CME Outfitters, LLC is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of As a Jointly Accredited Organization, CME Outfitters is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved under this program. Regulatory boards are the final authority on courses accepted for continuing cultural competence credit. Social workers completing this course receive of 1.0 continuing education credits.

ABIM MOC 1.0

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MIPS Improvement Activity

Completion of this accredited CME activity meets the expectations of an Accredited Safety or Quality Improvement Program (IA_PSPA_28) for the Merit-based Incentive Payment Program (MIPS). Clinicians should submit their improvement activities by attestation via the CMS Quality Payment Program website.

Disclosure Declaration

It is the policy of CME Outfitters, LLC, to ensure independence, balance, objectivity, and scientific rigor and integrity in all of their CE activities. Faculty must disclose to the participants any relationships with commercial companies whose products or devices may be mentioned in faculty presentations, or with the commercial supporter of this CE activity. CME Outfitters, LLC, has evaluated, identified, and mitigated any potential conflicts of interest through a rigorous content validation procedure, use of evidence-based data/research, and a multidisciplinary peer review process. The following information is for participant information only. It is not assumed that these relationships will have a negative impact on the presentations.

Dr. Peek reports no financial relationships to disclose.

Dr. Vega reports the following financial relationships:

Consultant: Boehringer Ingelheim and GSK

Dr. Vela reports the following financial relationships:

Grants: Health Resources & Services Administration (HRSA) Centers of Excellence

Other Financial or Material Support: Associate Editor for JAMA Network Open

The following peer reviewer and CME Outfitters staff have no financial relationships:

  • Joshua Caballero PharmD, BCPP, FCCP (peer reviewer)
  • Thomas Mitchell (peer reviewer)
  • Meghann Taft-Lockard (planning committee)
  • John Jones, PharmD (planning committee)
  • Jessica Whelan, DNP, APRN, FPMHNP-BC, RN-BC (planning committee)
  • Susan H. Yarbrough, CHCP (planning committee)
  • Sandra Caballero, PharmD (planning committee)
  • Sharon Tordoff (planning committee)

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Foundational Principles of Cultural Humility and Safety in Health Care Delivery
Event Date: 05/03/2023
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