Teaching cross-cultural medicine and international health at home
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Cross-cultural medicine.
Cultural competency is an essential skill for family physicians because of increasing ethnic diversity among patient populations. Culture, the shared beliefs and attitudes of a group, shapes ideas of what constitutes illness and acceptable treatment. A cross-cultural interview should elicit the patient's perception of the illness and any alternative therapies he or she is undergoing as well as ...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Academic Medicine
سال: 1998
ISSN: 1040-2446
DOI: 10.1097/00001888-199805000-00074