Communicative intercultural competence in Medical Postgraduate Education in Cuba

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This article describes the results of the investigation "Developing Communicative Intercultural Competence in Medical Postgraduate Education in Cuba through English", a master's degree thesis whose aim was to design a postgraduate course of English for Specific Purposes which would focus on the development of the communicative competence of doctors going to health missions in English-speaking countries or where English is spoken as a lingua franca. This course is based on Developmental Pedagogy, the Communicative Approach and Task-Based Learning. It emphasizes cultural and important intercultural issues to be kept in mind during doctor-patient interviews, doctor-doctor relationships and doctor-family exchanges in a professional context so as to make it possible to establish cultural differences and similarities between the student's culture and the foreign country's culture. This is an exploratory …

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2016

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