Organizational Cultural Competence of Post-Secondary Health-Related Academic Units

Each year, the United States is becoming more racially and ethnically diverse and creating many challenges for healthcare professionals. Extensive literature has documented a gap between minority and majority populations’ health outcomes. According to the Institute of Medicine, one way to eliminate health disparities is by providing cross-cultural training to future and current healthcare professionals. A few models in healthcare delivery systems have assessed their own organizational cultural competence. However, due to the unique differences between health care delivery systems and post-secondary health-related academic units, there exists a need to develop and validate a model for organizational cultural competence of post-secondary health-related academic units. This literature review builds the foundation for this research project, which is to provide initial construct validity of a model for organizational cultural competence of postsecondary health related academic units.