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Diversity University
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Business New Haven
10/4/1999
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| A recent study of medical schools found that the Yale University School of Medicine was one of the few medical schools that offered cultural-diversity training. The study, which examined medical-school curricula in the U.S., Canada, Australia and the UK, found that few specialties other than family medicine, community medicine and psychiatry offered cultural diversity courses for medical students. Published in the September 1 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), the study listed Yale's medical school as one of the seven schools that made cultural diversity instruction a requirement. The cultural diversity program at Yale consists of a series of seminars that are part of the required doctor-patient encounter course given to first- and second-year students. "This training is essential for improving communication between doctors and patients, and the case studies are just the beginning," says Peggy Bia, M.D., course director for the doctor-patient encounter course. "We would like to see an expanded program run throughout the entire four years of medical school and beyond."
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