English Fluency Is Not Enough: My Journey to Cultural Competency

This reflection article shares insight from an immigrant who initially struggled with cultural differences between South Korea and the USA. Through his personal experiences and anecdotes from cross-cultural training, the author describes the importance of cultural competency to effectively communica...

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Autor principal: Jung, Jinho
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer US 2022
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Reflections
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9550740/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35960474
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s13187-022-02212-5
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description This reflection article shares insight from an immigrant who initially struggled with cultural differences between South Korea and the USA. Through his personal experiences and anecdotes from cross-cultural training, the author describes the importance of cultural competency to effectively communicate and treat diverse patient populations in the USA. Encouraging cultural discussions to recognize obvious and subtle cultural differences may help providers become better advocates for patients.
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spelling pubmed-95507402022-10-12 English Fluency Is Not Enough: My Journey to Cultural Competency Jung, Jinho J Cancer Educ Reflections This reflection article shares insight from an immigrant who initially struggled with cultural differences between South Korea and the USA. Through his personal experiences and anecdotes from cross-cultural training, the author describes the importance of cultural competency to effectively communicate and treat diverse patient populations in the USA. Encouraging cultural discussions to recognize obvious and subtle cultural differences may help providers become better advocates for patients. Springer US 2022-08-12 2022 /pmc/articles/PMC9550740/ /pubmed/35960474 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s13187-022-02212-5 Text en © The Author(s) 2022 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) .
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9550740/
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