An Article Review
Summary
In the article Commentary on a Framework for Multicultural Education by Karin F. Hammerich (2014), the purpose is to converse about whether a structure for multicultural education is necessary, following a line of investigation and study on cultural competency preparation. This article is about how multicultural aspects affected the quality of care offered by healthcare providers, especially the chiropractors. It also aims to uplift the proposal of expanding the educational college core curriculum in order to truly produce trained healthcare providers who will become diverse in terms of healthcare practices and services.
After researching, evaluating, and gathering details about the need for this kind of multicultural learning for the healthcare industry, particularly those who specialize in chiropractic, the study has discovered that health care providers are usually scantily skilled or educated in handling patients of diverse cultures. Thus, the study puts forward or intends to acknowledge that as the population in the United States turns out to be progressively growing in variation, the desires of every patient also vary due to different factors, either because of their educational attainment or the culture they fit into. In this sense, multi cultural assortment has transpired as a concern for the health industry, for the reason that, the outcome of a health service being provided may be subjected to opposing views because of cultural differences.
Management Principles
The philosophy or ideology of the article depicts a fine organizational application for it gives the readers the insinuation that the healthcare industry must be able to adjust to the multicultural differences of their patients or clients. The article has placed a good initiative towards civilizing the current situation in the health tower with regards to the quality of work or services they offer their patients. In the article, the projected curriculum stated that, “In order to enhance students’ awareness and appreciation of diversity in any population, such as the school itself or the culture at large, curriculum change must move beyond the lecture” (Hammerich, 2014, p. 283). With this kind of agenda, the healthcare industry and different educational institutions will be able to develop racially proficient healthcare providers with the appropriate medical service deliverance.
It is also stated in the article that in the curriculum they are proposing, the Campinha - Bacote’s five mechanisms to build cultural aptitude are Cultural awareness, Cultural knowledge, Cultural skills, Cultural encounters and Cultural desires. In view of this, the “students trained in the five competencies in four years of a transformed curriculum will be appraised not only for their learning, but also for the success of a multicultural education” (Hammerich, 2014, p. 284). This will indeed maximize the expertise of students, enabling them to become well-skilled healthcare professionals in the future.
Reflection
This article is essential to the field of healthcare management because it will help the industry determine how it will be able to defy issues regarding cultural competencies and how they will improve based on studies that the college curriculum must be modified and improved in order to develop skilled and multi-cultured health practitioners who will be capable of handling patients from various backgrounds.
Moreover, the article is selected for this review analysis because it has gauged interest regarding its drive to uphold the emergence of multicultural education in order to provide equivalent opportunities to everyone who wants to be a healthcare professional and to be able to lift and strengthen the healthcare industry as a whole by enabling it to become culturally fair, diversified, and competent.
References
Hammerich, K. F. (2014,September). Commentary on a framework for multicultural education.
