Department of Internal Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
Acad Med. 2013 Apr;88(4):483-7. doi: 10.1097/ACM.0b013e3182857b8a.
It is increasingly common for health care professionals from developed countries to travel to developing regions of the world to learn or teach. This project aimed to describe the perceptions held by health care professionals in a developing region toward those who visit their communities to learn or teach.
Semistructured interviews were conducted in July, 2011, with nine health care professionals from the University of Namibia School of Medicine. Questions revolved around participants' perceptions of benefits, harms, and ethical impressions of a health care professional visiting from a developed country. Interviews were tape-recorded, transcribed, and analyzed qualitatively using an inductive, iterative approach.
The interview analysis identified three main narratives that shaped participant perceptions of visits: (1) culture, context, and concern, (2) expectations, intentions, and miscommunications, and (3) partnership and the desire to share and gain knowledge.
Participants' comments supported actively seeking out information regarding cultural and environmental context before visiting, completing a needs assessment to ensure that activities are needed and relevant, attempting to formulate long-term sustainable relationships, and traveling with the appropriate attitude. These themes provide valuable insight into how international educational collaborations can be created in order to be mutually beneficial.
来自发达国家的医疗保健专业人员前往世界发展中地区学习或教学的情况越来越普遍。本项目旨在描述发展中地区的医疗保健专业人员对前往其社区学习或教学的人的看法。
2011 年 7 月，对来自纳米比亚大学医学院的 9 名医疗保健专业人员进行了半结构式访谈。问题围绕参与者对来自发达国家的医疗保健专业人员的利益、危害和道德印象的看法。访谈进行了录音、转录，并采用归纳、迭代的方法进行了定性分析。
访谈分析确定了形成参与者对访问看法的三个主要叙述：（1）文化、背景和关注，（2）期望、意图和误解，以及（3）伙伴关系和分享和获取知识的愿望。
参与者的评论支持在访问前积极寻求有关文化和环境背景的信息，完成需求评估以确保活动是必要和相关的，试图建立长期可持续的关系，并带着适当的态度旅行。这些主题为如何创建互利的国际教育合作提供了有价值的见解。
