BACKGROUND Among US medical schools, demand for Global Health (GH) programs continues to grow. At the same time, cultural competency training has become a priority for medical students who will care for an increasingly diverse US patient population. We describe a pilot period for a new GH Selective designed to introduce medical students to global medicine and enhance culturally-sensitive commun...

. cross-cultural understanding dates back to the discovery of the third world, its peoples, and its religions. along this, the place of studying other peoples came in view. demography and orientalism were two disciplines which first aimed at studying other peoples regardless of their beliefs. after some thirty years, emphasis was laid on their beliefs, too. today after disproof of the anticipat...

Support for international negotiations requires integration of decision-theoretic approaches with communication facilities, and different visualization modes. In addition, NSS should also be tailored to different cultural and educational backgrounds of their users. While there have been studies on cross-cultural negotiations involving simple game or economic models, there have been no experimen...

We are developing an ontology of microsocial concepts for use in an instructional system for teaching cross-cultural communication. We report here on that part of the ontology relating to interpersonal relationships. We first explicate the key concepts of commitment, shared plans, and good will. Then in terms of these we present a formal account of simple exchanges, the host-guest relationship,...

We are developing an ontology of microsocial concepts for use in an instructional system for teaching cross-cultural communication. We report here on that part of the ontology relating to interpersonal relationships. We first explicate the key concepts of commitment, shared plans, and good will. Then in terms of these we present a formal account of the host-guest relationship.

Cross-cultural teaching management in the big data environment not only enhances quality and effectiveness of education but also promotes global cooperation exchange education, which has important practical significance value. Existing methods for analyzing practicality are usually qualitative analysis methods. While this method emphasizes complexity diversity educational phenomena, it may lead...