State of Cross-Cultural Competencies Development among Students from the Faculty of Medicine at Universidad Católica del Norte in Chile
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https://doi.org/10.31619/caledu.n54.955Keywords:
culturally relevant education, cross-cultural training, university student, cultural characteristics, cultural diversity, healthcare evaluation mechanisms, cultural competence, healthcare quality, patient outcome, systematic reviewAbstract
This article analyzes the situation of cross-cultural competencies in students of the Faculty of Medicine of the Universidad Católica del Norte in Chile. For the above, a complementary mixed methodology was applied. During the qualitative stage, 3 focus groups, 10 participants each one, were carried out, in addition to 8 semi-structured interviews. In the quantitative stage, the scale of cross-cultural competencies in health was applied to 130 students from the Faculty. Results show that students have a medium to high competence for the dimensions of cross-cultural cognitive skills, cross-cultural affective skills and behavioral skills to establish cross-cultural communication and low competence to link professional training to cultural diversity. The foregoing shows that there are consolidated basal competencies for the complete development of cross-cultural competence through future systematic training processes in the context of their academic studies
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