A hidden curriculum: mapping cultural competency in a medical programme
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A hidden curriculum: mapping cultural competency in a medical programme.
BACKGROUND Cultural competency can be understood as those learned skills which help us understand cultural differences and ease communication between people who have different ways of understanding health, sickness and the body. Recently, medical schools have begun to recognise a need for cultural competency training. However, few reports have been published that articulate and evaluate cultura...
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عنوان ژورنال: Medical Education
سال: 2003
ISSN: 0308-0110,1365-2923
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2923.2003.01624.x