eMagazine March 2023

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Written by Beth West
Director, Nuvance Health Patricia A. Tietjen, MD
Teaching Academy
Nuvance Health Global Health
Intercultural Initiative; Part 1
In addition to my role as Director of the Patricia
A. Tietjen, MD Teaching Academy, last year I was
invited to become a member of the faculty of
the Global Health Academy at Nuvance Health.
I am grateful to have received support from the
Nuvance Health Global Health Program who cosponsored
my training to become a Qualified Administrator of the Intercultural
Development Inventory (IDI). The IDI is an online, 50 question cross-culturally
validated, psychometric, theory-based assessment of intercultural development.
Results may be derived at the individual and group levels and indicate a position
along an Intercultural Development Continuum (IDC). The IDI was developed
based on the work of Milton Bennet’s Developmental Model of Intercultural
Sensitivity (DMIS) (Hammer et al., 2003). Those who take the IDI also receive an
individualized intercultural learning plan (IDP) to help facilitate progress towards
personal goals and objectives related to intercultural growth and development.
The IDI is a gold standard tool used to assess intercultural skill and quantifiably
measure growth. A brief video explaining the IDI and how/why it is used follows:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gtdkq6zR3Xg
The IDI has excellent applicability to the Global Health Academy, by measuring
and providing individual reports as well as individual intercultural development
plans to students, residents, fellows, and faculty who go abroad. Specific
facilitation and trainings could be delivered to sample groups (convenience or
self-selected) based on IDI results and a posttest IDI could be administered to
all those individuals who have traveled overseas or engaged in a significant
intercultural experience to determine if the international experience prompted
movement on the intercultural development continuum (IDC). Using this tool and
the data it provides will be extremely useful to support and grow programming
in Global Health.
Despite tremendous diversity of trainees and physicians at Nuvance sites in
the U.S. as well as deep, bilateral partnerships with international institutions,
there has been limited formal intercultural training or coursework offered by
Nuvance Health. I was invited by the Nuvance Health Global Health Program
to begin designing the first of such modules focused on intercultural learning
and development for Global Health. I have benefited greatly from participation
in significant intercultural learning, training, and teaching over the years, both
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