How medical consultation activities in spain
Currently, nearly 5 million immigrants from five continents living in Spain. For many, attending a medical consultation is a great challenge of communication, as well as for health workers. Switch Line of the pharmaceutical company Bushranger Ingelheim has launched the project Buscamundi to facilitate immigrant doctor-patient communication, and innovation and provide care based on respect, pluralism and mutual recognition to patients and medical staff.
The presence of greater cultural diversity has resulted in new health system needs, in addition to those in need of traditional and new tools, methodologies and protocols to focus from an intercultural perspective. The program invites acquire intercultural competence as a set of social skills needed to interact appropriately and effectively with patients from different cultural backgrounds.
Among the components of the Programmed, the online course of intercultural competence in medical practice that provides knowledge of those cultural differences that influence medical practice provides tools to manage these differences and improve patient communication and information concrete on the main determinants of health of the immigrant population.
This course is accredited and taught by a faculty consisting of experts on intercultural communication and consists of four modules that delve into issues such as immigration, intercultural competence in medical, cultural differences in the field of health and its impact on health care and the contribution of primary care to a culturally diverse society.
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