I present here six lessons I learned during my tenure in 1994 as a visiting professor and
senior Fulbright Scholar in the Family Medicine Residency Program at the National …

Over the past four years the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), Family Medicine
Residency Program has de veloped a cross-cultural training program. The goal of the pro …

The world is facing movements of peoples unparalleled in history. Even the heartland of the
American continent, which has seen few new population groups since the European …

The subject of cross-cultural medicine is an enormous one, and the article by Juckett1 in this
issue of American Family Physician provides a succinct overview of the nation's changing …

In attempting to successfully diagnose and treat people from different cultural dimensions,
medical practitioners must supplement theoretical concepts with knowledge about the …

Each family can be regarded as a unique small-scale society, with its own internal
organization and view of the world or family culture. A crucial aspect of each family culture …

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differences need not separate us from our patients. WILLIAM VENTRES, MD, MA, AND …