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Health outcomes are the results of healthcare and rehabilitative therapy interventions and describe what a client can accomplish through the rehabilitative therapy process. To achieve positive outcomes, practitioners identify possible barriers impacting clients’ participation in tasks and administer interventions to address these barriers in order to facilitate participation. As a result, cultural humility has been labeled as “paramount in therapeutic practice” (American Occupational Therapy Association [AOTA], 2020) due to it being a foundational principle underpinning effective client care and professionalism. Cultural humility is an ongoing process of acknowledging one’s biases and limitations through self-reflection and self-critique, while actively seeking to learn to honor another person’s values, beliefs, and culture through collaboration (Stubbe, 2020). Cultural humility promotes quality care and positive health outcomes by encouraging practitioners to acknowledge that clients’ identities are complex and that physicians will never be entirely competent in an individual’s ever-evolving identity and experiences (Hook et al., 2013). Due to cultural humility being a newer concept compared to broader and earlier ideas like cultural awareness and cultural competence, there is limited literature describing cultural humility training within rehabilitative therapy education (Foronda et al., 2018). As a result, the presence or absence of cultural humility in rehabilitative therapy can vary depending upon individual practitioners, settings, and systemic factors. While speaking with occupational, physical, and speech therapy faculty at the University of St. Augustine for Health Sciences (USAHS) Austin campus, there was a consensus that there is a lack of cultural humility exercises available in the curriculum (E. Frank, L. Johnston, and L. Spark, personal communication, 2024). Therefore, this micro-credential course will provide several cultural humility training opportunities for USAHS students and faculty to develop cultural humility.

Publication Date

Summer 8-6-2025

Publisher

University of St. Augustine for Health Sciences

Keywords

Occupational therapy, Cultural competency, Speech therapy, Curriculum, Communication, Outcome assessment-Health care

Medical Subject Headings

Occupational therapy, Cultural competency, Speech therapy, Curriculum, Communication, Outcome assessment-Health care

Disciplines

Medicine and Health Sciences | Occupational Therapy

Comments

Poster presented at the OTD Capstone Symposium held at the University of St. Augustine for Health Sciences, Summer 2025.

Fostering Inclusive Care: Advancing Cultural Humility in Healthcare Professional Education: A Micro-Credential

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