Improving cross-cultural skills of medical students through medical school-community partnerships.
Postulating that a program integrating language skills with other aspects of cultural knowledge could assist in developing medical students' ability to work in cross-cultural situations and that partnership with targeted communities was key to developing an effective program, a medical school and two organizations with strong community ties joined forces to develop a Spanish Language and Hispanic Cultural Competence Project. Medical student participants in the program improved their language skills and knowledge of cultural issues, and a partnership with community organizations provided context and resources to supplement more traditional modes of medical education.
Nora
L M
LM
Rush Medical College, Chicago, IL 60612-3832.
Daugherty
S R
SR
Mattis-Peterson
A
A
Stevenson
L
L
Goodman
L J
LJ
D003431:Cross-Cultural Comparison; D003469:Culture; D004501:Education, Medical; D004521:Educational Measurement; D005260:Female; D007722:Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; D006630:Hispanic or Latino; D006801:Humans; D008037:Linguistics; D008297:Male; D017145:Models, Educational; D010865:Pilot Projects; D016730:Program Development; D015397:Program Evaluation; D014481:United States