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The Health IT Workforce Curriculum was developed for U.S. community colleges to enhance workforce training programmes in health information technology. The curriculum consist of 20 courses of 3 credits each. Each course includes instructor manuals, learning objectives, syllabi, video lectures with accompanying transcripts and slides, exercises, and assessments. The materials were authored by Columbia University, Duke University, Johns Hopkins University, Oregon Health & Science University, and University of Alabama at Birmingham. The project was funded by the U.S. Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology. All of the course materials are available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License. Component 2 - An Overview of the Culture of Healthcare Component Overview: For individuals not familiar with healthcare, this component addresses job expectations in healthcare settings. It discusses how care is organized within a practice setting, privacy laws, and professional and ethical issues encountered in the workplace. Unit Title  The Culture of Healthcare Unit Overview:  This introductory unit discusses some of the underlying concepts of health, culture, and how health informatics applications can be used to study culture. Unit Objectives:  By the end of this unit the student will be able to: 1. Distinguish between disease and illness. (Lecture a) 2. Discuss the relationship between health and the healthcare system. (Lecture a, b) 3. Define 'culture' in the classic sense, as well as in the modern sense of the term, and what it means for culture to be partial, plural, and relative. (Lecture a, b) 4. Explain the concept of 'cultural competence'. (Lecture a) 5. Explain the concepts and distinguish between 'culture', 'cultural safety', and 'safety culture', as applied to organizations. (Lecture a) 6. Be aware of the multiple cultures that interact in healthcare delivery. (Lecture a, b) 7. Define 'acculturation' and how it relates to working in healthcare settings. (Lecture a) 8. Be able to give examples of health informatics applications of the study of culture. (Lecture a, b)

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