Short-term Experiences in Global Health: What is the Cost of Cultural Competence?
Cost and cost analysis
Cultural competence
Education
Medical
Medical missions
Undergraduate
Journal
Medical science educator
ISSN: 2156-8650
Titre abrégé: Med Sci Educ
Pays: United States
ID NLM: 101625548
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
Jun 2020
Jun 2020
Historique:
entrez:
30
8
2021
pubmed:
8
5
2020
medline:
8
5
2020
Statut:
epublish
Résumé
Students in a wide variety of health professions are increasingly interested in volunteering on a short-term experience in global health (STEGH). The literature suggests that STEGHs pose a variety of potential risks and benefits, and may carry a significant cost to plan and provide. One potential mitigating factor for any risks and costs is that student participation on a STEGH may enhance their cultural competence. Since monies spent on STEGHs are fungible, and there may be other opportunities to improve students' cultural competence, the objectives of this study were to determine if participation on a STEGH increased students' cultural competence and if so, what the cost for any such increase was. In this study, 20 students who participated on a 1-week STEGH to the Dominican Republic completed the Inventory for Assessing the Process of Cultural Competence Among Health Care Professionals - Student Version (IAPCC-SV) before and after the STEGH. The costs for all students and 7 supervising health professionals to volunteer for the STEGH were calculated, and the size of any increase in cultural competence was determined. The cost was divided by the change in cultural competence to ascertain the cost of the change. Students showed a measureable increase on the IAPCC-SV overall and on the subscales of knowledge and skill. The cost of a 1% overall increase in students' cultural competence ranged from $287 to $401. These results may allow schools offering STEGHs to determine if their offerings are cost-effective or not.
Identifiants
pubmed: 34457751
doi: 10.1007/s40670-020-00975-4
pii: 975
pmc: PMC8368303
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Pagination
927-932Informations de copyright
© International Association of Medical Science Educators 2020.
Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts
Competing InterestsThe authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.
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