S14: 1:00-2:30
Intercultural Development: An Active Learning Experience
Lead: Beth West
Purpose
The purpose of this 90-minute workshop is to support Global Health Bridges students in their journey to becoming more culturally competent healthcare providers. The presenter will facilitate participants' critical self-awareness about one's own culture as well as the cultural "other", examine core concepts and theories related to intercultural learning, engage participants in exercises that actively build intercultural competencies across a four-phase developmental framework, and work with participants to define specific intercultural development goals.
Method
This workshop utilizes adult learning theory and active learning practices for medical students to grow their own intercultural learning and development practices. Learning will involve individual and group exercises, active reflection, discussion, short lectures, and experiential activities to apply knowledge and practice developing essential skills.
Questions
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How is culture defined?
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Describe how Hofstede’s cultural value patterns resemble a bell curve and the danger in thinking of cultural value patterns as predictive absolutes.
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How might you apply concepts or practices uncovered today in your own life as a medical student, future healthcare professional, and global citizen?
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Results/Objectives
Through ACTIVE participation in this workshop, the learner will:
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Define what intercultural learning entails (concepts, theories, frameworks)
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Recognize the influence of cultural contexts on how you and others view the world (cultural self-awareness)
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Construct new awareness of yours’ and others’ cultural identities and values (cultural other awareness)
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Develop skills to engage more effectively across cultures through active-practice (bridge cultural gaps).
Conclusion
Participants will develop skills, knowledge, and understanding to communicate and engage more appropriately and effectively as health care professionals as well as in other intercultural contexts.
Supplementary Reading Materials
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TEDtalk. (2009, October 7). Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: The danger of a single story | ted. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9Ihs241zeg
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Hofstede, G. (2011). Dimensionalizing Cultures: The Hofstede Model in Context. Online Readings in Psychology and Culture, 2(1). https://doi.org/10.9707/2307-0919.1014
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Shaya, F. T., & Gbarayor, C. M. (2006). The case for cultural competence in health professions education. American journal of pharmaceutical education, 70(6), 124. https://doi.org/10.5688/aj7006124
Link to the PowerPoint Presentation