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Dear Preceptors, Faculty and Advisors,
This newsletter is the result of the work of the Delta Health Education Partnership's Task Force on Cultural Diversity. The Delta Health Education Partnership is a multi-state consortium funded by The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to provide community-based educational programs for primary health care providers (Family Nurse Practitioner, Certified Nurse-Midwife, Physician Assistant) within the lower Mississippi Delta region.
The Task Force's charge comes from the analysis of focus group responses to questions on recruitment, advisement and retention strategies for primary care providers in the Delta. The focus group respondents were primary care providers, preceptors, faculty, students and employees. According to the focus group results, the characteristics of persons who should go into community-based primary care provider programs include persons who are caring, culturally sensitive to community need and able to work independently. They should also be indigenous to the community in which they will practice. In order to adequately prepare culturally sensitive
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primary care students, preceptors, faculty and advisors need to demonstrate cultural awareness and cultural sensitivity so that these students can be recruited, educated and retained in the lower Mississippi Delta region.
The task force developed four objectives for a series of 13 newsletters over the next three years. Upon completion of the series, preceptors, faculty and advisors will be able to:
1. Identify the language of cultural sensitivity
2. Assess one's own cultural awareness and cultural sensitivity
3. Incorporate principles of cultural sensitivity that will enhance recruitment and retention of primary care provider students in the clinical environment.
4. Demonstrate cultural sensitivity that will acknowledge and respect differences in interactions with primary care provider students.
-The Newsletter Committee
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