title: [A good medical curriculum takes the religious beliefs and cultural background of the students into consideration].
abstract: The ethnic composition of the student population is highly diverse, just like that of the Dutch population, and the medical curriculum should take this into consideration. The curriculum assumes that doctors will be able to recognise problems that are related to a particular cultural background. The flexibility that medical curricula are expected to display in the way they deal with cultural diversity may also be expected of both Dutch and originally non-Dutch students. Opening up dilemmas for discussion and searching for solutions in a constructive manner during the medical curriculum can contribute to a professional approach to patients later in life.
authors.affiliation: Universiteit Utrecht, Kriekenpitplein 21-22, kamer I.OI, 3584 EC Utrecht. p.g.p.herfs@uu.nl
authors.forename: P G P
authors.initials: PG
authors.lastname: Herfs
mesh_terms: D003469:Culture; D003479:Curriculum / Q000592:standards*; D004501:Education, Medical / Q000592:standards*; D005006:Ethnicity; D006801:Humans; D009426:Netherlands; D012067:Religion; D012068:Religion and Medicine; D013337:Students, Medical / Q000523:psychology