The public debate on health risks has strongly increased in Germany in recent years. One reason for this increase may be the often dramatic manner of news reporting in the media that informs the public on current outbreaks of BSE, bird flu or Ebola. Afterwards, it often became apparent that the sometimes fierce discussions had not addressed the core of the problem at all, and the public was lef...

The role of medical anthropology in tackling the problems and challenges at the intersections of public health, medicine, and technology was addressed during the 2009 Society for Medical Anthropology Conference at Yale University in an interdisciplinary panel session entitled Training, Communication, and Competence: The Making of Health Care Professionals.

Friendly cross-cultural and international relations are currently of particular importance for countries peoples around the world. The state policy Russian Federation is aimed at promoting language culture, exporting education. preparatory department, as first stage educational process foreign citizens in Russia, both provides training plays an important role socio-cultural development students...

The need to train health professionals who can work across disciplines is essential for effective, competent, and culturally sensitive health care delivery. By its very nature, the provision of health service requires communication and coordination between practitioners. However, preparation for interdisciplinary practice within the health care setting is rare. The authors argue that the primar...

Clinical skills such as history taking, diagnostic reasoning, therapy planning, and giving advice are even more complex than practical skills like lung auscultation and have to be applied in complex clinical situations. We judged this competence in an interdisciplinary formative OSCE conducted with students of Marburg University. Results of 218 students passing 643 OSCE stations composed of 37 ...

The major purpose of college English teaching is to cultivate and develop student’s pragmatic competence. Interlanguage pragmatics is a new interdisciplinary branch of study based on the theories of pragmatics and second language acquisition which has direct guide significance for foreign language teaching. This paper firstly introduces the theoretical models of the two theories and then focuse...

The origin of the patient-centered interdisciplinary collaborative round, which involves health care members all levels at a time, is an effective and emerging approach to offer inpatient healthcare. Traditionally, post-partum rounds teaching hospitals consisted separate visits from obstetric team that resulted in patient inconvenience, insufficiencies, communication gaps. main objective this s...