In a volume 9, issue 2 guest editorial by Melanie Tervalon and Jann Murray-García, the authors discuss cultural humility versus cultural competency. Tervalon and Garcia write that cultural humility incorporates a lifelong commitment to self-evaluation and self-critique, to redressing the power imbalances in the patient-physician dynamic, and to developing mutually beneficial and nonpaternalistic clinical and advocacy partnerships with communities on behalf of individuals and defined populations.
