Culture in Healing – Healing in Culture

Rationale:

The quality of the relation connecting the health worker to the patient is an important element of the healing process. The cultural distance separating the two often creates an invisible bias producing unnecessary tensions, compromising successful patient- professional cooperation. Minorities and migrants are often cited as obvious examples of cultural otherness; it is less readily recognised that patients coming simply from different social contexts than that of the majority population might also pose problems to the medical system.

Aim of the seminar:

to introduce and discuss a method based on the work of French social psychologist Margalit Cohen- Emerique to increase self-consciousness and self-reflection of health professionals being able to cope with intercultural issues. A conceptional framework and important keys will be given to understand better cultural patterns different from theirs, in order to render their work more efficient and less contentious.

Hands-on Internationalisation@home

The 2.5-day workshop will offer a framework to develop activities on Internationalisation@home.
It offers tools to enhance international competences for teachers and staff based on distance learning, contact education, international classroom and other educational activities.
The workshop is constructed around some keynotes as an inspiration session and workshops to exchange ideas and to reflect on the current curriculum.
During the workshop, different examples of good practice will be introduced.

Keywords: INT@home, international classroom, international week, INT@home assessment tool