The whole series of workshops proved thought provoking and relevant to my practice. Thank you.  Medical student, Barts, 2010                            

Medicine Beyond Materialism

Cultural, religious and spiritual models of health

Training Seminars

Topics

1. Culture, Religion and Mental Health (3 hours)

 

2. Women’s Issues and Healthy Minds (3 hours)

 

3.  Cultural Competencies, Health & Existential Beliefs (20 hours)

Seminars which invite dialogue

about cultural ways of understanding health

 

Peoples’ beliefs about the causes of illness influence their health seeking strategies, their access to services, and engagement with treatment.  These seminars enhance social inclusion, by raising awareness of cultural assumptions about symptoms, especially with new migrants, refugees and asylum seekers.

 

Audience

These seminars are of direct relevance to commissioners and policy makers, medical and allied health care practitioners including GPs, psychiatrists, health service providers, nursing, midwives, and social care staff. They provide evidence on equality and diversity training for Care Quality Commission.

   “As healthcare professionals, we must accept that we may encounter patients whose beliefs are very different to ours, people whose beliefs we may not be able to understand, but whose wishes we must still be able to respect.”      

  (Medical student, BSMS, 2010)