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Understanding a patient’s culture and background can help a physician
provide the highest quality of care. Communication is key to cultural
competency. It is important to tailor discussions of health and health
behavior to individual patients in a way that is culturally sensitive. A
cookie cutter approach is not effective when it comes to treating
diverse populations. Additionally, it is necessary to learn how to
communicate with patients who speak a different language or have limited
proficiency in a particular language.
At the Medical School for International Health (MSIH) we take
an integrated approach to global health and cross-cultural medicine. The
curriculum provides a comprehensive education in medical sciences and
clinical training, with focused global health coursework, concepts,
issues and practices throughout. Students learn about various social
determinants of health and develop cultural competency skills. This
includes a year long Introduction to Global Health Course, Cross
Cultural Communications Workshops and Global Health Modules, such as
Health Inequities, Migration and Health, and Poverty and Health.
MSIH students have the opportunity to treat a very diverse patient population, including Israel’s
Bedouin
and Ethiopian communities, as well as immigrants from the former Soviet
Union, Africa, the Americas and the Middle East. As MSIH first year
student Binil Jacob mentions in his
blog,
"Soroka (the primary teaching hospital of MSIH) is a place where
Russian flows into Hebrew flows into Arabic and somehow other languages
jut in." In the fourth year, students complete an eight week
global health rotation
in diverse locations around the world, such as India, Nepal, the
Philippines, Sri Lanka, Peru, Ghana and Ethiopia. During the clerkship,
students get to experience how physicians and healthcare practitioners
in different cultures provide quality care despite limited resources.
The key to any medical education that focuses on culturally competency
is that more culturally relevant health care enrich the
patient-physician relationship and improve patient rapport, adherence,
and outcomes. It improves individual care and can contribute to the
elimination of racial and ethnic health disparities.
Learn More About MSIH
We will be hosting an informational webinar on December 3rd at 7:00 pm EST. Click here to 
register. If you would like more information about the Medical School for International Health, or to schedule an information session at your college or university, please contact the Admissions Office at 844-422-MSIH or visit our website at msih.bgu.ac.il.
Apply to MSIH
The application for the entering class of 2020 is available on our website. Admission is on a rolling basis.
Please do not hesitate to contact me with any questions you may have.
Best wishes,
Kelly A. Coleman, MBA
Assistant Director of Recruitment and Public Relations
Medical School for International Health
Coleman@post.bgu.ac.il
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