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EuroAfrica Media Network Offers Professional Intercultural Training for Medical Doctors and Allied Health Professionals
Immigration & Intercultural Health Development Trends: Doctors and all Health Workers should acquire intercultural skills
Increased trans-border migration means more cultural diversity and medical care for young and old. This results in greater demand for qualified health care professionals – which also fuels another demand: The need to provide cultural responsive medical care for immigrants and foreigners. “Other countries, different norms and customs” is also noticeable in medicine, so that in the field of medical care, deriving from the above thesis comes the third great demand: The great need for intercultural competence training for all medical professionals with emphasis on trans-cultural communication, cultural sensitivity and ambiguity tolerance.
This is where EuroAfrica Media Network starts and offers its professional training courses in intercultural medicine and care in Hamburg, Germany. The differences in cultures are particularly noticeable in the sensitive fields like medicine and nursing, which is experiencing more service-pressures through migration and immigration in Germany. With focus on culture, health and medicine and intercultural competence, the network offers intercultural lecturers for nursing schools / institutions in Germany and overseas.
Following such training, participants get strengthened and improved intercultural competence skills. This in turn, not only leads to better understanding of the immigration-background of patients but equally those of team members in health industries. Empathy, intercultural conflicts and misunderstandings are addressed and explained, so that participants gain needed skills in working in a globa-cultural challenging society.
Often it is not only simple but even more complicated questions that disconcert us during transcultural encounters: How does compliance differ from adherence? Transcultural care / medicine, intercultural competence – what´s the meaning of all these? What are Monochronic or Polychronic cultures? What is “low-context communication” or “high-context communication”? What is “particularism and Universalism”? Why does someone not look at you in the eyes while he / she is talking to you? Why is he screaming or too loud when talking? How do I know when an African or someone with dark-skin complexion is pale? In this training you will get answers to all these questions.
What are the advantages of these training courses?
Improved understanding and understanding, and thus improved workflows through the resolution of cultural conflicts or misunderstandings
Higher utilization by addressing multicultural target groups
Increased referral rate and increased image for the facility
Optimal care from intercultural-competent personnel
Giving her feedback after the training programme, participant Anja Schmidt said: “The EuroAfrica Media Network´s transcultural training offers, go beyond themes on culture and immigration. Topics like Integration, self-awareness, foreign adjustment issues and aging are not left out. As a Health care professional in Germany I received a targeted training which I can always apply in my daily work-challenges in clinics and other health facilities”.
Asked “Why offer Intercultural Training for Healthcare Professionals?” The EuroAfrica Media Network Director, Chris Ezeh said: “The first Germany´s immigrant generation are now on retirement age. The arrival of more than 1.2 million refugees in Germany in 2015 is another indicator pointing to the tectonic changes already emerging in the health care landscape and which will definitely increase in the coming years.
Not only cultural differences but also similarities become very clear when we analyze illness, medicine, nursing and death. For example, many immigrants do not feel adequately treated in many of their host-countries. They are misdiagnosed or closed to cultural issues when it comes to these issues. In this training, health, nursing and medical professionals learn how to respond sensitively and safely to these requirements.”
Mr. Chris Ifeanyi Ezeh recently stated in a press release: “Today, culture-sensitive medical care for a hospital means reacting timely to a decisive development in the demographic changes in our society: 20% of the German population has an immigration background. Culture-sensitive medical care means applying intercultural competence and openness to enable people from other cultures to have adequate access to medical care in hospitals and to provide employees with new tools to offer culturally sensitive treatment or care”.
He further explained why and who needs Intercultural Competence Skills in Health Education most. “Intercultural competence allows dealing with different religious and cultural influences. Above all, it gives those responsible more confidence and sovereignty for a patient-friendly therapy. Continuing education in health care for core-staff is inevitable. As a matter of urgency, these core-health workers namely: Hospital administration staff, physicians, therapists, nurses, consultants, medical/nursing teachers and management professionals must be trained internally or attend training courses.
Ensuring adequate health care for all citizens on one hand and in times when health care managers are faced with scarce human, financial and time resources, make it necessary to empower healthcare workers to learn to cope with people from different backgrounds with dexterous competence and sovereignty.”
About EuroAfrica Media Network:
EuroAfrica Media Network (EAMN) is an international Media Organization set up in 2004 against the perpetual misrepresentation of Africa in the Western media. There is more about Africa than just wars, hunger, diseases and crisis. EuroAfrica Media Network serves a world-wide audience via its two bilingual portals www.euroafricamedia.eu/ (International Page – in English) and www.euroafricamedia.de (Regional Page – in German): Each armed with a corresponding EuroAfrica Magazine Online and an Online Directory – to Promote Africa and friends of Africa-resources. We offer our international community via our online Magazine: www.euroafricanews.com well-selected interactive services like news, entertainment, lifestyle and medical counselling.
This project lives from a network of World-wide dedicated field professionals, African organizations, diverse groups and online communities seeking to improve the image of Africa, the living situation of Africans and other minorities elsewhere via advocacy campaigns, information services, and other empowerment engagements. The aim will include the encouragement and support in order to bring together communities and individuals united by a common goal and by providing access to information about the different projects aims or activities.
For more information visit https://www.euroafricamedia.eu
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