Schumann Marwa, Dennis Ashley, Leduc Jean-Michel, Peters Harm
Dieter Scheffner Center for Medical Education and Educational Research, Dean's Office for Study Affairs, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany.
Medical Education Department, Alexandria Faculty of Medicine, Alexandria University, Alexandria, Egypt.
Med Educ. 2025 Jun;59(6):589-595. doi: 10.1111/medu.15563. Epub 2024 Nov 1.
Health professions education research is an increasingly global community with culturally and linguistically diverse research teams who are challenged in how to communicate across cultures, contexts and languages. In today's diverse research landscape, language transcends its role as a mere means of communication and becomes a bridge that facilitates connections within research teams, between the team and its participants and between participants from diverse linguistic and cultural backgrounds and the scientific community. English as the 'lingua franca' is often seen as the international language of science and 'a prerequisite for scientific exchange'. This creates a language bias within the body of health professions education literature and involves methodological challenges for conducting research in non-English speaking contexts.
卫生专业教育研究领域日益全球化，研究团队在文化和语言上具有多样性，他们在如何跨文化、跨背景和跨语言进行交流方面面临挑战。在当今多元的研究环境中，语言超越了其作为单纯交流手段的角色，成为一座桥梁，促进研究团队内部、团队与其参与者之间以及来自不同语言和文化背景的参与者与科学界之间的联系。英语作为“通用语言”，常被视为科学的国际语言和“科学交流的先决条件”。这在卫生专业教育文献中造成了语言偏见，并给在非英语环境中开展研究带来了方法上的挑战。
