Table 2.

Study Selection Criteria

Criteria Year of Publication	Inclusion 2000–2015	Exclusion
Target population	Students, residents, and providers in healthcare-related professions providing direct patient contact, such as medicine, nursing, pharmacy, dentistry, psychology, and allied health	Health-related professions not focused on direct patient contact, such as public health, environmental health, or health informatics
Type of publication	Any peer-reviewed study, whether in databases or the grey literature	Opinion papers
Study types	Any	Interventions that do not explicitly state cultural competence as a desired outcome
Educational interventions	Studies describing educational interventions designed to improve learners’ cultural competence
Type of educational intervention	Any
Topics	Race/ethnicity origin/ancestry culture	Any other topic related to cultural competence, such as sex, gender, age, sexual orientation, disability, religion, or language
Language	Any
Geographic location	Any