The Transfer of Cultural Intelligence to Medical Students in the Digital Era
The Transfer of Cultural Intelligence to Medical Students in the Digital Era

Summary/Abstract: The notion of cultural intelligence is increasingly referred to nowadays, particularly when it comes to the efficient communication within the workplace. We may even say that cultural intelligence overlaps with intercultural competence, which is true up to a certain extent; however, as communication keeps getting more digital (especially amid the COVID-19 pandemic), we come to realize that the traditional methods of teaching such notions must be updated in order to correspond to our current needs. Given the fact that these concepts were being taught to medical students in ESP classes, the following paper aims to discuss some approaches to teaching these subjects – which prove to be highly beneficial to medical students when they learn to understand the way in which cultural intelligence may come to influence the work they are going to carry out in health care settings, the way in which they will be able to interact with people coming from different cultural backgrounds. The paper will also try to address the problem of cultural values nowadays, the way in which people respond to such values in a digitalized world that may have come to challenge the very notion of tradition as we used to perceive it.

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