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Journal Club: Cultural Humility

February 25, 2010 by Charlene Julien

One of the many fun things we do at the RCHC during our lunch breaks, other than eating healthy ;),  is hold a journal club.  Awesome...I know!  Every two weeks we select an article to read as a group and discuss it.  Every other article is related to our work the other not-so much (for example we read two articles called "Colonial Legacies and Economic Growth" by RM Grier and "Colonialism and Development: A Comparative Analysis of Spanish and British Colonies" by M. Lange,et. al).

Our most recent journal club meeting focused on an article titled "Cultural Humility" by Melanie Tervalon and Jann Murray-Garcia.  The authors argue that we can achieve cultural humility through education, although their focus was on physician education.  They offer clear examples of how all of us can strive towards and practice cultural humility so long as we do not view it as something we can attain. 

I cannot do this article any justice so I suggest you check it out: 

http://info.kp.org/communitybenefit/assets/pdf/our_work/global/Cultural_Humility_article.pdf