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Cultural Competency for Healthcare

Develop cultural agility in your healthcare workforce with online education that builds critical communication skills and changes attitudes and behavior.

  • Reduce unconscious biases that contribute to health disparities

  • Improve health outcomes and increase patient satisfaction

  • Advance your health equity goals

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A person-centered approach designed by practicing physicians

Proven to develop cross-cultural communication skills for healthcare workers

Quality Interactions offers a complete suite of online courses to meet the continuing education needs of the healthcare community.

  • Expert-designed courses based on peer-reviewed research and real-world best practices, accredited for CE credit

  • Proven learning model helps participants understand the impact of bias and change behaviors

  • Engaging and interactive content features updated terminology

  • Mobile-friendly course modules accessible 24 hours/day for flexible learning

Trusted by over 250,000 learners at the country's largest hospitals, health plans, and medical schools

Why Quality Interactions

Designed by Experts

Designed by Experts

Courses crafted by pioneers in cultural competency research deliver validated learning you can trust.

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Research-Based

Peer-reviewed research ensures proven approaches and purposeful learning for real impact.

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Interactive Learning

Real-life case scenarios blend with interactive exercises to make learning meaningful and lasting.

Mobile-Friendly Design

Mobile-Friendly Design

Learn where and when you want to with 24-hour accessible modules on your computer, tablet, and phone.

LMS Integration

Easy LMS Integration

Use our state-of-the-art Learning Management System, or integrate with your own.

Accredited CE Hours

Accredited CE Hours

Earn printable certificates for continuing education credit from ACCME, ANCC, CCMC, ASWB, and ACPE.

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"My level of empathy and self-awareness increased after this module, even though I felt it was already at a high level."
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Developed by and for Healthcare Providers

Quality Interactions is unique in that our methodology was developed by practicing physicians and leaders in the field of cultural competency. We are dedicated to providing practical, relevant solutions for healthcare professionals, informed by real-world experience and best-practice research.

Meet our Founders

 

Joseph Betancourt

Joseph Betancourt, MD, MPH

Joe is the Vice President and Chief Equity and Inclusion Officer of Massachusetts General Hospital, the founder, senior advisor and faculty of the Disparities Solutions Center (DSC) at Mass General, Faculty at the Mongan Institute, an Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and a practicing Internal Medicine physician.

Alexander Green

Alexander Green, MD, MPH

Alex is Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, and Senior Investigator in the Division of General Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital. He splits his practice between Massachusetts and Puerto Rico.

Emilio Carrillo

J. Emilio Carrillo, MD, MPH

Emilio is senior faculty at the Disparities Solutions Center, Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine at the Weill Cornell Medical College, and Clinical Associate Professor of Epidemiology and Health Services Research at the Weill Cornell Graduate School of Medical Sciences.

Foundational Learning

Our most popular course helps learners make the connection between culture, everyday professional interactions, and health outcomes. Job-specific course versions:

  • Teach an action-based approach to improve cross-cultural interactions
  • Address common issues, including language barriers, low health literacy, mistrust, and social stressors
  • Include pre- and post-tests to track knowledge gains

 

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eLearning courses

Course Catalog

Quality Interactions offers a complete suite of online courses to meet the continuing education needs of the healthcare community. Courses are accredited by ACCME, ANCC, CCMC, ASWB, and ACPE. Build a custom curriculum for your organization that targets your health equity goals.

Clinical Staff

  • ResCUE Model™ for Cross-Cultural Clinical Care

    This foundational course for clinicians applies a person-centered approach to uncovering and responding to differences in cultural perspectives on healthcare. Four action-based lessons prepare learners to respond to common issues that include mistrust, language barriers, and limited health literacy. General clinical and pediatric versions available.

  • Improving Adherence in Diverse Populations

    Research demonstrates that diverse populations are more likely to encounter barriers to adherence, leading to poorer health outcomes, and perpetuating racial and ethnic healthcare disparities. This course equips key members of the healthcare team to promote adherence behaviors using a screening and counseling tool, the ESFT Model™, in day-to-day interactions.

  • Cross-Cultural Care in Mental Health and Depression

    Research shows that social and cultural factors affect people’s presentation of mental health conditions, and can significantly influence their perspectives about treatment and care management. This interactive course helps mental health care professionals develop a skill set that is critical to ensuring quality interactions with diverse individuals across all stages of care.

  • Test Your Skills™ for Clinicians

    Clinicians actively improve their skills in cross-cultural care through these dynamic, case-based interactions. Each interaction presents a patient with a range of health conditions and common cross-cultural issues. Test Your Skills™ courses simulate real clinical interactions and offer personalized feedback around key concepts and skills.

All Staff

  • Recognizing & Overcoming Unconscious Bias

    Research shows that unconscious biases significantly contribute to disparities in healthcare, but that with education and effort, biases can be overcome. This course provides an overview of unconscious bias, its societal prevalence and outcomes in healthcare. Participants learn strategies for recognizing and addressing implicit bias, and apply learning to interactive case scenarios.

  • Disability Awareness and CUEs for Quality Interactions

    This course applies our person-centered approach to specific issues and challenges frequently encountered when providing healthcare services to individuals with disabilities that include hearing, visual, speech, physical, and cognitive impairments. Learning outcomes include understanding of Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) requirements.

  • Creating a Welcoming Environment for LGBTQ Individuals

    This course utilizes interactive learning techniques to review healthcare concerns and preventative measures specific to the LGBTQ community, laws governing individual rights, and terminology that illustrates understanding and sensitivity. Learners apply evidence-based, actionable tips for creating a welcoming healthcare environment to real-life case scenarios.

  • Working With Specific Populations: Hispanic/Latino

    The Hispanic/Latino population is the largest minority group in the United States, and also one of the fastest growing. This course reviews important Hispanic/Latino population data, including healthcare issues and disparities, and provides person-centered strategies for establishing a strong relationship and exploring cultural traditions and beliefs related to healthcare.

  • Culturally Competent Care for the Medicare Population

    Aging Medicare beneficiaries, particularly those from culturally diverse backgrounds, are at greater risk for poor outcomes, such as increased emergency room utilization, avoidable hospitalizations, and readmissions—outcomes that ultimately lead to reduced quality and increased cost of care. In this course, learners apply the latest research-based strategies for improving care and controlling costs.

Non-Clinical

  • ResCUE Model™ for Cross-Cultural Communication

    Appropriate for any healthcare professional, this course emphasizes best practice approaches to cross-cultural interactions with a range of diverse populations. Participants engage in interactive exercises and case studies, and learn to use the ResCUE Model™, an actionable set of concepts and skills that improve cross-cultural interactions in the workplace. Versions for direct patient care and health plan service representatives are available.

  • Test Your Skills™ for Healthcare Professionals

    Healthcare professionals actively improve their cultural competency skills in these dynamic, case-based interactions. Each case presents an individual with a range of cross-cultural issues, and guides the learner to effectively navigate the interaction toward resolution using Quality Interactions’ “Five Steps of Engagement.” Personalized feedback reinforces key concepts and skills.

  • Quality Interactions with Diverse Populations

    This course builds awareness of cross-cultural issues in healthcare through three short cases that prompt learners to explore other perspectives. These cases cover the following topics: acknowledging specific customs and spirituality; responding with empathy; addressing language barriers and requesting an interpreter; and sensitivity to sexual and gender issues.

  • Clear Communication for Healthcare Professionals

    This quick-hitter course presents seven audio scenarios to highlight effective communication techniques. Each scenario prompts the learner to identify the technique, and provides feedback and tips for employing clear communication in any healthcare setting.

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"The skills I learned will help me improve care for my patients."

 

 

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Learn why Quality Interactions' cultural competency training for healthcare has been the industry leader since 2003.

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Science-based methodology created by experts
Supports your diversity and inclusion goals
Develops cross-cultural communication skills for interpersonal success
Meets Cultural Competency Continuing Education requirements

 

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