• Fabricio E Balcazar, Yolanda Suarez-Balcazar, and Tina Taylor-Ritzler.
• Department of Disability and Human Development (M/C 626), University of Illinois at Chicago, 1640 West Roosevelt Rd, Chicago IL 60608, USA. fabricio@uic.edu
• Disabil Rehabil. 2009 Jan 1; 31 (14): 1153-60.

PurposeTo describe the development of a conceptual framework for cultural competence that could help and guide the training of rehabilitation practitioners, students and researchers.MethodA systematic review of the literature yielded 259 usable documents that were further reviewed by two independent readers to identify 32 publications that described cultural competence conceptual models.ResultsAfter eliminating redundancy, 18 unique cultural competence models were identified. A synthesis model was first developed which included four components. After an empirical validation of the model, a new model with only three components emerged.ConclusionThe empirically validated conceptual framework is a promising tool for training and evaluation of cultural competence.

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