Cultural diversity has been a vital factor in the aspect of adapting and changing professions toward the 21st century culture. “Since late 1960s the United States faced massive changes on the cultural population due to the drastic development of immigration patters”. Due this change, the US population was introduced to a numerous cultures that attended to adapt to the western culture. These numbers of immigration and growth of minority groups caused a number of adaptations in the American culture to create culturally competent society in terms of diversity.
A diversity adapted society it means “accepting people who are different from oneself or being more inclusive and accepting of students, athletes, or colleagues regardless of color, national origin, race, religion, sex or sexual orientation”. With that mentioned, the clinicians should be able to “understand and incorporate different cultures into the daily care, which it is known as cultural competence”. In the professional field of athletic training and/or any other medical care profession it is important to understand, integrate and analyze people from other cultures since that will develop and improve the medical approach and …show more content…
In the aspect of college athletics minorities represented almost the 34% of the student-athletes”, however, this number percentage of minorities in athletics did not reflect in the percentages of the sports medicine staff which it was an 86.6% Caucasians. Some way that the National Athletic Training Association, and some colleges found functional to use and improve the productivity and approach of their staff it was to provide “diversity training” programs; just the 53.8% of the athletic training population was involved on some kind of training. However, just the 10% of the professionals were involved in an “athletic training diversity
A diversity adapted society it means “accepting people who are different from oneself or being more inclusive and accepting of students, athletes, or colleagues regardless of color, national origin, race, religion, sex or sexual orientation”. With that mentioned, the clinicians should be able to “understand and incorporate different cultures into the daily care, which it is known as cultural competence”. In the professional field of athletic training and/or any other medical care profession it is important to understand, integrate and analyze people from other cultures since that will develop and improve the medical approach and …show more content…
In the aspect of college athletics minorities represented almost the 34% of the student-athletes”, however, this number percentage of minorities in athletics did not reflect in the percentages of the sports medicine staff which it was an 86.6% Caucasians. Some way that the National Athletic Training Association, and some colleges found functional to use and improve the productivity and approach of their staff it was to provide “diversity training” programs; just the 53.8% of the athletic training population was involved on some kind of training. However, just the 10% of the professionals were involved in an “athletic training diversity