Janne Sorensen

• University of Copenhagen

Introduction: Health disparities exist between migrants and ethnic minorities (MEM) and the majority population in Europe and Denmark. As diversity increases, delivering healthcare appropriate to MEM is essential. Training health professionals (HP) in diversity competence (DC) prepares them for a diverse society and helps address health disparitie...

Background Migrant and ethnic minority populations in Europe are growing, leading to a demand for health systems and health educations to accommodate the growing diversity. Research indicates that health professionals feel inadequately prepared to care for diverse populations, and medical education has gaps in addressing these issues. The aim of th...

Background Evidence suggests that mistreatment of medical students (MS) exists and that it is associated with stress, anxiety, burnout, substance abuse etc. Mistreatment encompasses discrimination and sexual harassment and impacts MS’ ability to partake their education with increased risk of dropout. The aim of the study is therefore to explore whe...

OBJECTIVES Medical education is under continuous pressure to introduce new curriculum content to ensure that physicians possess the competences that the population needs. Diversity competence (DC) is a relatively new area within medicine, challenging the existing curriculum. Frameworks and guidelines have been developed to provide support and assis...

Ethnic disparities in stillbirth exist in Europe and suboptimal care due to miscommunication is one contributing cause. The MAMAACT intervention aimed to reduce ethnic disparity in stillbirth and newborns' health through improved management of pregnancy complications. The intervention encompassed training of antenatal care midwives in cultural comp...

Background Migrant and ethnic minority populations in Europe are growing, leading to a demand for health systems and health educations to accommodate the growing diversity. However, many medical educations in Europe, including Denmark, have not yet incorporated diversity competence training into their curriculum. The aim of the study is to investig...

Introduction: To combat ethnic inequalities in health, medical students should be prepared to treat all patients. Denmark has become an increasingly diverse society and therefore needs a medical curriculum that reflects the change in population composition. This study aimed to assess if the dermatology curriculum in Denmark prepared medical studen...

Background Diversity is a reality in our societies, requiring health professionals to adapt to the unique needs of all patients, including migrants and ethnic minorities. In order to enable health professionals to meet related challenges and reduce health disparities, long and demanding training courses have been developed. But due to busy schedule...

Background Population diversity is a reality in our societies and requires health systems and health professionals to adapt to the needs of diverse patient groups, including migrants and ethnic minorities. This study aims to investigate topics and methods that should be prioritised in an online course on diversity competence in healthcare delivery...

Background Health professionals face a variety of professional challenges in today's plural societies. Sciences propose a specific skill set can help to meet those challenges. Various terms and sometimes extensive concepts are provided for diversity competence. The related learning processes are time-consuming and demanding to implement in hectic c...

Many researchers and practitioners agree that a specific skillset helps to provide good healthcare to migrant and minority patients. The sciences offer multiple terms for what we are calling ‘diversity competence’. We assume that teaching and developing this competence is a complex, time-consuming task, yet health professionals’ time for further tr...

Background Migrant and ethnic minority populations in Europe are growing, consequently increasing the need for the health systems and health educations to adapt to an increasingly diverse population with diverse needs. Improving health professionals' diversity competences has been proposed as one of the solutions to tackle inequalities in health be...

Background Europe is becoming more social and cultural diverse as a result of the increasing migration, but the medical doctors are largely unprepared. The medical education programmes and teachers have not evolved in line with development of the population. Culturally competent curricula and teachers are needed, to ensure cultural competence among...

A health system serving diverse populations requires health professionals who are competent in caring for patients and population groups who differ in e.g. age, gender, socio-economic status, migrant status, and ethnicity. Cultural competence (CC) among health professionals is viewed as one strategy to ensure equal access to healthcare across diver...

AIMS: The cultural competence training of healthcare professionals is a key element in ensuring the quality of both the access and delivery of healthcare to increasingly ethnically diverse populations. The aim of this study is to investigate Danish medical teachers' opinions about cultural competence, their willingness to receive training and prep...