Eisenbruch M
Department of Child and Family Psychiatry, Royal Children's Hospital, Parkville, Vic.
Med J Aust. 1989 Nov 20;151(10):574-6, 579-80.
Australian medical education has not kept pace with Australia's increasingly multicultural society. Feedback from ethnic community organizations suggests that medical students and specialist trainees in medicine are not learning how to understand, to interact with and to treat patients in culturally appropriate ways. The first part of this paper reviews the problem and considers some perspectives in transcultural medicine and clinically applied medical anthropology. The second part proposes some areas in which medical schools can take the initiative in developing interdisciplinary teaching programmes at undergraduate and graduate levels. These programmes should provide minimal standards to enable any medical graduate to practise with patients of any cultural background and, in addition, will encourage some students to pursue more specialized studies in transcultural medicine and medical anthropology. It is suggested that new developments should be integrated with appropriate university departments such as anthropology.
澳大利亚的医学教育未能跟上澳大利亚日益多元文化社会的步伐。来自族裔社区组织的反馈表明，医学生和医学专科培训生没有学习如何以文化上合适的方式理解、与患者互动和治疗患者。本文的第一部分回顾了这一问题，并探讨了跨文化医学和临床应用医学人类学的一些观点。第二部分提出了一些医学院校可以主动开展本科和研究生层次跨学科教学项目的领域。这些项目应提供最低标准，使任何医学毕业生都能为任何文化背景的患者提供医疗服务，此外，还将鼓励一些学生在跨文化医学和医学人类学方面进行更专业的学习。建议新的发展应与诸如人类学等合适的大学院系相结合。
