Teaching Cultural Competence and Cultural Humility in Dental Medicine

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

10-21-2020

Publication Title

Medical Reference Services Quarterly

Volume

39

Issue

4

First page number:

309

Last page number:

322

Abstract

Dental students need to be equipped as clinicians to treat diverse communities and to recognize oral health disparities that are rooted in the social determinants of health. Library instruction is frequently focused on information literacy topics. Within the health sciences this might include critical appraisal or evidence synthesis, and instruction centered on locating and using library resources. This paper details the unique experiences of two liaison librarians to the School of Dental Medicine who taught the topics of cultural competence and cultural humility to first-year dental medicine students. While the authors do not discuss typical information literacy instruction in this paper, they share strategies used to design the instruction sessions, reflections on teaching these themes, lessons learned, and suggestions for other liaison librarians who might have an interest in teaching about cultural competence or cultural humility

Keywords

Cultural competence; Cultural humility; Dental medicine; Liaison librarianship; Library instruction

Disciplines

Dental Public Health and Education | Dentistry | Library and Information Science | Medicine and Health Sciences | Social and Behavioral Sciences

Language

English

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