The standards and methods of American cross-cultural medical education and its enlightenment

doi:10.3760/cma.j.issn.1673-677X.2018.02.033

Abstract

Abstract: The different cultural background of patients affects the cognition of patients to the disease and health seeking behavior, which results in the conflicts between doctors and patients and health inequality. America is a multi-ethnic immigration country. With the above background, cross-cultural medical education has been developing. A series of standards has been issued, which interacts actively with the teaching practice in the medical college. Besides the education mode of “conceptual approach” and “patient-centered approach” have been explored to train medical students with cultural competence. Also online course has been applied as a new way. China is also a multi-ethnic country. Based on the experiences of American cross-cultural medical education and the national conditions, in the course of medical teaching reform, the standards should be set and cross-cultural curriculum should be offered. What’s more,cross-culture education method with Chinese characteristics should be explored to improve the cultural competence of medical students in China.

Key words: Cross-cultural medical education, Cultural competence, America

Jiang Yu, Guo Zhaoqing, Qi Qiang, Li Weishi, Zeng Yan, Sun Chuiguo, Tian Hua, Chen Zhongqiang. The standards and methods of American cross-cultural medical education and its enlightenment[J]. Chinese Journal of Medical Education, 2018, 38(2): 311-315.

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