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Intercultural sensitivity among medical students of UniKL RCMP

Generally the development and spread of technology has helped to minimize the physical borders among people.Knowledge, technology, education and even cultures have been easily transferred across borders through globalization.It is believed that educational institutions provide stable platforms to p...

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Main Authors: Ramlan, Farah Ayuni, Kassim, Nilam Maisarah, Pakirisamy, S., Selvakumar, Vishalini
Format: Conference or Workshop Item
Language:English
Published: 2014
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HM Sociology
LB2300 Higher Education
Online Access:http://repo.uum.edu.my/13704/1/4.pdf
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spelling my.uum.repo.137042015-04-08T04:37:25Z http://repo.uum.edu.my/13704/ Intercultural sensitivity among medical students of UniKL RCMP Ramlan, Farah Ayuni Kassim, Nilam Maisarah Pakirisamy, S. Selvakumar, Vishalini HM Sociology LB2300 Higher Education Generally the development and spread of technology has helped to minimize the physical borders among people.Knowledge, technology, education and even cultures have been easily transferred across borders through globalization.It is believed that educational institutions provide stable platforms to promote and practice intercultural communication among the younger generation of students.This study aims to examine whether medical students of UniKL RCMP have developed the required level of intercultural sensitivity to develop better intercultural understanding and communication across cultures.The Intercultural Sensitivity Inventory (Penbek, Yurakul & Cerit, 2009) was used to quantify participant’s levels of intercultural sensitivity based on Chen and Starosta (2000).Results of this study show that medical students have moderate level of intercultural sensitivity.Formal education/instruction does play an essential role in raising cultural awareness among students. 2014-12-23 Conference or Workshop Item PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://repo.uum.edu.my/13704/1/4.pdf Ramlan, Farah Ayuni and Kassim, Nilam Maisarah and Pakirisamy, S. and Selvakumar, Vishalini (2014) Intercultural sensitivity among medical students of UniKL RCMP. In: Seminar on National Resilience 2014 (SNAR 2014), 23 December 2014, Premiera Hotel, Kuala Lumpur. http://ipdm.uum.edu.my
institution Universiti Utara Malaysia
building UUM Library
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country Malaysia
content_provider Universiti Utara Malaysia
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url_provider http://repo.uum.edu.my/
language English
topic HM Sociology
LB2300 Higher Education
spellingShingle HM Sociology
LB2300 Higher Education
Ramlan, Farah Ayuni
Kassim, Nilam Maisarah
Pakirisamy, S.
Selvakumar, Vishalini
Intercultural sensitivity among medical students of UniKL RCMP
description Generally the development and spread of technology has helped to minimize the physical borders among people.Knowledge, technology, education and even cultures have been easily transferred across borders through globalization.It is believed that educational institutions provide stable platforms to promote and practice intercultural communication among the younger generation of students.This study aims to examine whether medical students of UniKL RCMP have developed the required level of intercultural sensitivity to develop better intercultural understanding and communication across cultures.The Intercultural Sensitivity Inventory (Penbek, Yurakul & Cerit, 2009) was used to quantify participant’s levels of intercultural sensitivity based on Chen and Starosta (2000).Results of this study show that medical students have moderate level of intercultural sensitivity.Formal education/instruction does play an essential role in raising cultural awareness among students.
format Conference or Workshop Item
author Ramlan, Farah Ayuni
Kassim, Nilam Maisarah
Pakirisamy, S.
Selvakumar, Vishalini
author_facet Ramlan, Farah Ayuni
Kassim, Nilam Maisarah
Pakirisamy, S.
Selvakumar, Vishalini
author_sort Ramlan, Farah Ayuni
title Intercultural sensitivity among medical students of UniKL RCMP
title_short Intercultural sensitivity among medical students of UniKL RCMP
title_full Intercultural sensitivity among medical students of UniKL RCMP
title_fullStr Intercultural sensitivity among medical students of UniKL RCMP
title_full_unstemmed Intercultural sensitivity among medical students of UniKL RCMP
title_sort intercultural sensitivity among medical students of unikl rcmp
publishDate 2014
url http://repo.uum.edu.my/13704/1/4.pdf
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http://ipdm.uum.edu.my
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