title: [Patient-centred and culturally competent: good health care for immigrant patients requires specific competencies].
abstract: Good care for all patients, including immigrants, means patient-centred personal care by a physician with the specific knowledge and skills necessary for this individual patient and his specific context. This requires cultural competences, i.e. the knowledge and skills to handle ethnic, social and cultural health differences. These competences should be addressed more in medical education and postgraduate training and in policies regarding quality of care.
authors.affiliation: Pharos, kennis- en adviescentrum, Utrecht, the Netherlands. m.muijsenbergh@pharos.nl
authors.forename: Maria E T C
authors.initials: ME
authors.lastname: van den Muijsenbergh
authors.forename: Eldine H
authors.initials: EH
authors.lastname: Oosterberg
mesh_terms: D054521:Cultural Competency; D003469:Culture; D054242:Emigrants and Immigrants; D005006:Ethnicity / Q000523:psychology / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D006801:Humans; D018802:Patient-Centered Care; D010820:Physicians / Q000523:psychology*; D011787:Quality of Health Care; D013337:Students, Medical / Q000523:psychology