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Cultural diversity: blind spot in medical curriculum documents, a document analysis
Emma Paternotte1, Joanne P I Fokkema, Karsten A van Loon
1Department of Medical Education, Sint Lucas Andreas Hospital, Jan Tooropstraat 164, P,O, Box 9243, 1061 AE Amsterdam, The Netherlands. emmapaternotte@gmail.com.
BMC Medical Education
|August 25, 2014
Summary
Cultural diversity training is underrepresented in Dutch medical education curricula, despite recent updates. This gap fails to equip doctors with essential competencies for a multicultural society.
Area of Science:
- Medical Education
- Cultural Competency
- Public Health
Background:
- Physicians face challenges due to patient cultural diversity.
- Cultural diversity training is crucial in medical education.
- Strategic curriculum documents should reflect cultural diversity, especially when recently updated.
Purpose of the Study:
- To assess the formal status of cultural diversity training in the Netherlands.
- To analyze recently updated medical curriculum documents for cultural diversity content.
Main Methods:
- Document analysis of strategic curriculum documents for medical education (undergraduate and postgraduate) in the Netherlands.
- Extraction and categorization of text phrases related to cultural diversity.
Main Results:
- 33 out of 52 analyzed documents mentioned cultural diversity training.
- Undergraduate medical education documents described cultural diversity more prominently than postgraduate.
- Postgraduate attention to cultural diversity was superficial and varied by specialty.
Conclusions:
- Cultural diversity is underrepresented in Dutch medical training documents, despite recent updates.
- The current curricula do not adequately prepare doctors for a multi-ethnic society.
- Multi-ethnic countries must critically evaluate their medical educational curricula for cultural diversity content.
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