PROBLEM BEING ADDRESSED Canadian family physicians serve a patient population that is increasingly diverse, both culturally and linguistically. Family medicine needs to take a leadership role in developing social accountability and cultural sensitivity among physicians. OBJECTIVE OF PROGRAM To train medical students to work with newly arriving refugees, to foster competence in handling cultur...

BACKGROUND The aim was to compare cause-specific mortality, self-rated health (SRH) and risk factors in the French and German part of Switzerland and to discuss to what extent variations between these regions reflect differences between France and Germany. METHODS Data were used from the general population of German and French Switzerland with 2.8 million individuals aged 45-74 years, contrib...

A specific faculty development program for tutors to teach cross-cultural care in a preclinical gastrointestinal pathophysiology course with weekly longitudinal followup sessions was designed in 2007 and conducted in the same manner over a 6-yr period. Anonymous student evaluations of how "frequently" the course and the tutor were actively teaching cross-cultural care were performed. The statem...

The main aim of the present study was to examine the cross-cultural equivalence of a newly developed questionnaire, the Emotion Awareness Questionnaire (EAQ30) that assesses emotional awareness of children through self-report. Participants were recruited in three countries: the Netherlands (N = 665), Spain (N = 464), and Belgium (N = 707), reflecting three languages: Dutch, Spanish, and French ...

Abstract This paper compares the opening sequences of Finnish, French and Hungarian YouTube videos. We concentrate on addressing, greeting related gestures, important elements when YouTubers interact with their imagined viewers, using data consisting 138 videos in three languages. study falls within field pragmatics social media interpersonal pragmatics, were analysed multimodal discourse analy...

uch of program evaluation is concerned with understanding and improving social programs so that they are ultimately more responsive and more reflective of program participant needs. At the same time, these programs exist and are embedded within specific social, cultural and historical contexts which impact program development, implementation, and eventual outcomes. Evaluations that attempt to a...

PériCulture is the name of a research project at the Université de Montréal which is part of a larger project based at the Université de Sherbrooke. The parent project aimed to form a research network for managing Canadian digital cultural content. The project was financed by Canadian Heritage and was conducted during the fiscal year 2003-2004. PériCulture takes its name from péritexte and cult...

of thesis The mediating of chanson: French identity and the myth Brel-Brassens-Ferré Jacques Brel, Georges Brassens and Léo Ferré are three emblematic figures of post-war French song, who have been seen by critics, journalists, and the public, as the epitome of chanson, and more generally of ‘Frenchness’. The starting point of this study is the observation that the legacy of the systematic asso...

This study evaluated the cultural competence and cultural confidence (self-efficacy) levels of baccalaureate nursing students in 3 types of programs: those with integrated cultural content, those with a required nonnursing culture course, and those with a culture course in nursing. A sample of 759 students participated. Only the students in the nursing culture course program reached a level of ...