Language barriers in medical education and attitudes towards Arabization of medicine: student and staff perspectives
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الملخص
Students and staff perspectives on language barriers in medical education in Egypt and their attitude towards Arabization of the medical curriculum were explored in a questionnaire survey of 400 medical students and 150 staff members. Many students [56.3%] did not consider learning medicine in English an obstacle, and 44.5% of staff considered it an obstacle only in the 1st year of medical school. Many other barriers to learning other than language were mentioned. However, 44.8% of students translated English terms to Arabic to facilitate studying and 70.6% of students in their clinical study years would prefer to learn patient history-taking in Arabic. While Arabization in general was strongly declined, teaching in Arabic language was suggested as appropriate in some specialtiesالإستشهاد
Sabbour, S.M., Dewedar, S.A. & Kandil, S.K. (2010). Language barriers in medical education and attitudes towards Arabization of medicine: student and staff perspectives. EMHJ - Eastern Mediterranean Health Journal, 16 (12), 1263-1271, 2010 https://iris.who.int/handle/10665/118065