Training, communication, and competence: the making of health care professionals

My-Linh Luong

Training, communication, and competence: the making of health care professionals

Yale J Biol Med. 2009 Dec;82(4):177-9.

Author

My-Linh Luong¹

Affiliation

¹ Department of Anthropology, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut 06269-2176, USA. my-linh.luong@uconn.edu

PMID: 20027287
PMCID: PMC2794497

Abstract

The role of medical anthropology in tackling the problems and challenges at the intersections of public health, medicine, and technology was addressed during the 2009 Society for Medical Anthropology Conference at Yale University in an interdisciplinary panel session entitled Training, Communication, and Competence: The Making of Health Care Professionals.

Publication types

Congress

MeSH terms

Anthropology
Clinical Competence*
Communication*
Cultural Competency
Global Health
Health Personnel / education*
Humans
Physician-Patient Relations
Public Health