On center field or at the sidelines? – A plea for a multimodal approach between medical schools and medical student communities while integrating international medical students

An increasing number of medical schools offer support services for international students. Their frequent focus on linguistic and academic support often reflects a rather deficit-oriented perception of international medical students. Therefore, this comment advocates a stronger focus on the integrat...

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Autores principales: Astfalk, Timo, Zhang, Danmei, Pérez Anderson, Ricardo Patricio, Alhalabi, Obada T., Schulze, Henrike
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
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Publicado: German Medical Science GMS Publishing House 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6326408/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30637325
http://dx.doi.org/10.3205/zma001207
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description An increasing number of medical schools offer support services for international students. Their frequent focus on linguistic and academic support often reflects a rather deficit-oriented perception of international medical students. Therefore, this comment advocates a stronger focus on the integration into the local medical student communities. This happens both against the background of the expected academic benefits and the added value of intercultural learning at medical schools.
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spelling pubmed-63264082019-01-11 On center field or at the sidelines? – A plea for a multimodal approach between medical schools and medical student communities while integrating international medical students Astfalk, Timo Zhang, Danmei Pérez Anderson, Ricardo Patricio Alhalabi, Obada T. Schulze, Henrike GMS J Med Educ Article An increasing number of medical schools offer support services for international students. Their frequent focus on linguistic and academic support often reflects a rather deficit-oriented perception of international medical students. Therefore, this comment advocates a stronger focus on the integration into the local medical student communities. This happens both against the background of the expected academic benefits and the added value of intercultural learning at medical schools. German Medical Science GMS Publishing House 2018-11-30 /pmc/articles/PMC6326408/ /pubmed/30637325 http://dx.doi.org/10.3205/zma001207 Text en Copyright © 2018 Astfalk et al. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License. See license information at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
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