Tool for Assessing Cultural Competence Training (TACCT)
With increasing diversity in the U.S. population and strong evidence
of disparities in health care, it is critically important that health
care professionals are specifically educated on how their own and
their patients' demographic (e.g., gender, income, race and ethnicity,
etc.) and cultural (e.g., language, religion, etc.) factors influence
health, health care delivery and health behaviors. In 2000, the
Liaison Committee on Medical Education (LCME) introduced two standards
about cultural competence that inspired medical schools to introduce
cultural competence education into the undergraduate curriculum.
TACCT will help in that effort.
TACCT is a self-administered assessment tool that can be used
by medical schools to examine all components of the entire medical
school curriculum. TACCT enables schools to identify gaps and redundancies
in their curricula, which will enable schools to make the best use
of opportunities and resources. The TACCT can be used for both traditional
and problem-based curricula.
An AAMC project—called "Medical Education and Cultural
Competence: A Strategy to Eliminate Racial and Ethnic Disparities
in Health Care" and made possible by The Commonwealth Fund—developed
TACCT to assess cultural-competence training in medical schools.
TACCT Components
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