BookMora Claramita, Ardi Findyartini, Dujeepa D. Samarasekera, Hiroshi Nishigori, editors.
Summary: This book addresses health professions educational challenges specific to non-Western cultures, implementing a shifting paradigm for educating future health professionals towards patient-centered care. While health professions education has received increasing attention in the last three decades, promoting student-centered learning principles pioneered by leaders in the medical community has, for the most part, remain rooted in the Western context. Building from Hofstedes analysis of the phenomena of cultural dimensions, which underpin the way people build and maintain their relationships with others and influence social, economic, and political well-being across nations, this book demarcates the different cultural dimensions between East and West, applied to medical education. The respective hierarchical and collectivist cultural dimensions are unpacked in several studies stemming from non-western countries, with the capacity to positively influence healthcare education and services. The book provides new insights for researchers and health professional educators to understand how cultural context influences the input, processes, and output of health professionals education....
Contents:
Chapter 1. Student-centered Learning
Chapter 2. Facilitating Learning
Chapter 3. Learning Resources
Chapter 4. Workplace-based Learning
Chapter 5. Curriculum Development
Chapter 6. Student-Assessment
Chapter 7. Professionalism Education
Chapter 8. Quality Assurance
Chapter 9. Leadership
Chapter 10. Personal and Professional Development
Chapter 11. Interprofessional Education
Chapter 12. Student and Faculty Well-being
Chapter 13. Way Forward.