Editorial: Diversity in Medical Education

While medical schools need to address the health care needs of diverse populations and to accommodate to the diverse needs of their students and staff, addressing and studying diversity in medical education remains challenging. In teaching cultural competence, several approaches are identified, incl...

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Main Authors: Petra Verdonk, Janusz Janczukowicz
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Association for Medical Education in Europe (AMEE) 2018-01-01
Series:MedEdPublish
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Online Access:https://www.mededpublish.org/Manuscripts/1415
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Summary:While medical schools need to address the health care needs of diverse populations and to accommodate to the diverse needs of their students and staff, addressing and studying diversity in medical education remains challenging. In teaching cultural competence, several approaches are identified, including a cultural expertise approach, a cultural sensibility approach and a cross-cultural approach with the more recently emerging call for reflexivity. We propose the analysis of diversity related issues at three distinct levels: fixing the numbers, fixing the institutions and fixing the knowledge.
ISSN:2312-7996