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Perceptions Of Cultural Competency Among Premedical Undergraduate Students, Reeti Goyal, Skky Martin, Dana Garbarski
Perceptions Of Cultural Competency Among Premedical Undergraduate Students, Reeti Goyal, Skky Martin, Dana Garbarski
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Background:
Cultural competence is a difficult skill to teach, as it has several operational definitions as well as limited and unstandardized training procedures. Currently, there is no formal cultural competency training at the undergraduate level for students who seek to become a medical doctor. The purpose of this study is to explore perceptions of cultural competence among premedical undergraduates by assessing how they define and understand cultural competency and their knowledge (and sources thereof) of sociocultural realities in health and medicine.
Methods:
Structured in-depth interviews took place in 2016 and 2017 at a medium-sized private college in the Midwestern United …