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u n i ve r s i t y  o f  co pe n h ag e n  Capacity building in Danish Medical Educationtowards more diversity sensitive and culturally competent medical teachersSørensen, Janne; Suurmond, Jeanine; Krasnik, AllanPublication date:2016Document versionPublisher's PDF, also known as Version of recordDocument license:UnspecifiedCitation for published version (APA):Sørensen, J., Suurmond, J., & Krasnik, A. (2016). Capacity building in Danish Medical Education: towards morediversity sensitive and culturally competent medical teachers. Abstract from EUPHA Conference, Wien, Austria.Download date: 10. Sep. 2020See discussions, stats, and author profiles for this publication at: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/313255649Capacity building in Danish Medical Education: towards culturally competentmedical teachers: Janne SorensenArticle  in  The European Journal of Public Health · November 2016DOI: 10.1093/eurpub/ckw164.044CITATIONS0READS174 authors:Some of the authors of this publication are also working on these related projects:SULIM - Towards Sustainable Healthy Lifestyle Interventions for Migrants View projectGEMS University of Limerick View projectJanne SorensenUniversity of Copenhagen4 PUBLICATIONS   28 CITATIONS   SEE PROFILEJeanine SuurmondAcademisch Medisch Centrum Universiteit van Amsterdam109 PUBLICATIONS   731 CITATIONS   SEE PROFILEKatja LantingAcademisch Medisch Centrum Universiteit van Amsterdam18 PUBLICATIONS   42 CITATIONS   SEE PROFILEAllan KrasnikUniversity of Copenhagen215 PUBLICATIONS   4,184 CITATIONS   SEE PROFILEAll content following this page was uploaded by Jeanine Suurmond on 21 January 2019.The user has requested enhancement of the downloaded file.Capacity building in Danish Medical Education:towards culturally competent medical teachersJanne SorensenJ Soerensen1, J Suurmond2, K Lanting2, A Krasnik11Research Centre for Migration, Ethnicity and Health, University ofCopenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark2Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, The NetherlandsContact: jans@sund.ku.dkBackgroundEurope is becoming more social and cultural diverse as a resultof the increasing migration, but the physicians are largelyunprepared. The education programmes and the teachers havenot evolved in line with development of the population.Culturally competent curricula and teachers are needed, toensure cultural competence (CC) among health professionalsand to tackle inequalities in health between different ethnicgroups.MethodsThe objective of this EU financed study is to investigate therole of CC in the medical educational programmes. As a partof the project a survey was developed to investigate medicalteachers cultural competences and preparedness to teach CCtopics. The survey was sent to all medical teachers, clinicalteachers and external lectures that teach in the medicalprogramme at the University of Copenhagen. A total of 1430medical teachers received the survey.The response rate wasabout 14% (N= 199).ResultsOur results showed that there is a widespread recognition ofthe need of CC among the medical teachers About half of themedical teachers find that they have sufficient knowledge toteach CC and 60-90% find that they have qualifications forteaching a diverse student group. About 70% are interested ingetting training for various types of CC and about 75% think itis important to incorporate CC elements in the curriculum.Our survey had a low response rate and there is probably aconsiderable selection among the respondents.ConclusionsGenerally, there is an interest in learning more about and toreceive training in CC among the medical teachers. There isalso a high acknowledgment of the need and the importance ofintegrating CC elements in the medical curriculum. Keychallenges are how to integrate cultural diversity in health anddisease within medical education and how to motivate andengage stakeholders (teachers, management etc.) within theorganisation to promote and allocate resources to CC trainingfor teachers.Key messages: A widespread interest for CC training among medicalteachers It is important to integrate CC in the medical curriculum9th European Public Health Conference: Parallel Sessions 21Downloaded from https://academic.oup.com/eurpub/article-abstract/26/suppl_1/ckw164.044/2448229 by guest on 21 January 2019View publication stats

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