ON THE IMPORTANCE OF INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATION AND ENGLISH LANGUAGE SKILLS FOR HEALTH PROFESSIONALS
ON THE IMPORTANCE OF INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATION AND ENGLISH LANGUAGE SKILLS FOR HEALTH PROFESSIONALS

Summary/Abstract: This article aims to draw attention to some aspects of the importance of English language skills consolidation and of intercultural skills formation for medical professionals (physicians, pharmacists, nurses, therapists and other health workers) under the current political, economic, social and demographic developments within the Europe Union and Great Britain. The method of work is primary and secondary source analysis. The primary sources that have been consulted are regulatory documents of the European Union and of the National Health Service (NHS) of Great Britain, while the referred secondary literature consists in seminal monographs and articles of theoreticians in this field, as well as a selection of articles from the British media. The process of test standardization and of the imposing of stricter language testing conditions for medical professionals is described in the first part of the paper, while in the second part there is a discussion of recent globalization developments with the explosion it brought to cultural diversity (through the concepts of multiculturalism and interculturalism).

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