36th Congress of the italian transplantation societyOrgan donationOrgan and Tissue Donation in Migrants: Advanced Course for Cross-Cultural Mediators
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Materials and Methods
The choice of intercultural mediators included the following requirements: qualification in intercultural mediation in the sanitary area, availability to participates in every single phase of the course including the final exam, willingness to be present at meetings organized by the intensive care staff. The teachers involved in the project were skilled in cross-cultural mediation in the sanitary area, including anthropologists, psychologists, and RPC doctors.
Between February and June 2011,
Results
There were 28 candidates registered for the course who were already qualified as linguistic-cultural mediators: Arabic and dialects; Albanian; Chinese; Rumanian; Moldavian; Serbo-Croatian; French; English; German; Spanish; and Russian and came from the main Piedmont towns. Among the 28 candidates, 3 withdrew from the course, 2 failed the final exam, and 2 were not available even after finishing the course and passing the exam.
The remaining 21 qualified candidates in September 2011, compared the
Discussion
Culture, race, and religion, at least in part, overlap each other.9 According to Hofstede,11 culture is a general phenomenon, characterized by unwritten laws, that are partly shared with people who live or have lived in the same social environment. This “group planning” starts from infancy.11 Most people live in collective cultures that feel as though they are part of a wide family structure. It is quite understandable that migrants of the same cultural background prefer to live in immediate
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