XIII. Cross-disciplinary training

•      Apply principles of adult learning and competency-based instruction to educational activities.

•      Provide clinical and translational science instruction to beginning scientists.

•      Incorporate adult learning principles and mentoring strategies into interactions with beginning scientists and scholars in order to engage them in clinical and translational research.

•      Develop strategies for overcoming the unique curricular challenges associated with merging scholars from diverse backgrounds.

XIV. Community engagement

•      Examine the characteristics that bind people together as a community, including social ties, common perspectives or interests, and geography.

•      Appraise the role of community engagement as a strategy for identifying community health issues, translating health research to communities, and reducing health disparities.

•      Summarize the principles and practices of the spectrum of community-engaged research.

•      Analyze the ethical complexities of conducting community-engaged research.

•      Specify how cultural and linguistic competence and health literacy have an impact on the conduct of community-engaged research.



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