The CMA’s Institute for Medical Quality (IMQ) received a substantial grant from the California Endowment to promote cultural and linguistic competency in continuing medical education (CME). The two-year grant will allow IMQ to help CME providers in California develop strategies to comply with the state’s new cultural competency CME law. The law, which took effect July 1, requires that all CME courses include curriculum on cultural and linguistic competency so that physicians better understand their patients’ health-related cultural beliefs and expectations and how different diseases affect diverse populations.
Through this grant, IMQ will provide educational opportunities, technical assistance, and informational resources to over 400 CME providers in California.
