Accepted Type
Oral
Code
OG1-1-1
Acceptance Declaration
Accept
Additional Information
I declare I have no actual or potential conflict of interest in relation to this program.
Was this work accepted for CCME 2020?
yes
Category
General Call (Workshop, Oral Presentation, Poster Presentation)
Type
Oral
Sub Type
Education Research
Will the presenter be a:
Jr. Faculty (less than 5 years in practice)
Affiliation
Considered for Poster
no
Title
Developing a New Measure of Cultural Sensitivity for Health Professions Learners
Length of Presentation
Background/Purpose
Immersion in other cultures is a transformative learning opportunity for learners to become lifelong advocates for all their patients. To measure the efficacy of these experiences, a validated instrument to measure change on the relative cultural sensitivity, is necessary. The last validated instrument was revised in 2002 (Neuliep, 2002). We live in a more socially aware era than when these items were written and crafted. To sincerely understand people's latent perceptions, we need a shrewder instrument that cannot be as easily 'gamed' for a socially desirable outcome.
Methods
This instrument development combined 12 expert consultations and the narrative experiences of 95 health professions students and then rigorously applied item-response theory and instrument development science to develop a generalizable scale of cultural perceptions.
Results
The developed scale was prototyped with an interprofessional sample of health professions students and analysed using correlation analyses and exploratory factor analysis revealing a 4-factor structure. From these findings, items were dropped and the scale trimmed to a final form.
Conclusion
The constructs of this instrument are highly interdisciplinary and transferable across health professions and beyond. For example, electives/placements for nurses, physiotherapists, and medical trainees expose learners to many different health provision and learning contexts that may have very different cultural feels to them. This instrument would offer a means for measuring the efficacy of these training programs to increase learner advocacy and cultural sensitivity. We look forward to freely sharing our learning and instrument with any health professions educator to promote the development of health advocates everywhere.
Keyword 1
Cultural Sensitivity
Keyword 2
Justice
Level of Training
General
Abstract Themes
Learning Outcomes
Learning Outcomes
Professionalism/Ethics
Additional Theme (First choice)
Leadership
Additional Theme (Second Choice)
Student Affairs
Additional Theme (Third Choice)
Undergraduate
Authors
Presenter
Eleftherios Soleas
Term 1
Yes
Term 2
Yes
Term 3
Yes
Term 4
Yes
Term 5
Yes
