An innovative approach to teaching cross-cultural communication among dental students

Fuchs, Joseph R.; Tannous, Andrew; Guiton, Gretchen; Kaul, Paritosh

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“…Previous studies suggested that dental students’ health belief attitudes improved via a training of cross-cultural communication [ 27 ]. Nursing students showed improved beliefs and self-efficacy in clinical communication, when receiving virtual simulation of clinical scenarios [ 26 ].…”

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“…The questionnaire for the pre-test and the post-test consists of 18 questions from three domains: Motivation, Beliefs, and Self-efficacy (Table 2 ), which have been widely investigated in previous studies of clinical communication in medical, dental, and nursing students [ 14 , 18 , 19 , 26 , 27 ]. The ‘Motivation’ domain consists of six questions that focus on participants’ motivation to learn the behavioral issues of clinical communication, e.g., Question #1 ‘ It is interesting to learn how dentists and patients interact with each other in a clinical context ‘.…”

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Evaluation of a digital game for teaching behavioral aspects of clinical communication in dentistry

Lin

Yang

2023

BMC Med Educ

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Introduction Traditionally, dental students learn the skills for dentist-patient interaction and communication via on-site contact with patients, when they start clinical training. However, preclinical students (who have not started clinical practice) have fewer chances to realize the context of dentist-patient interaction. It has remained unclear if a gamification approach via digital media, i.e., a computer role-playing game, can help to learn clinical communication skills. The intervention-based study investigates the effectiveness of the clinical dentist-patient communication (CDPC) game on students’ motivation, beliefs, and self-efficacy to learn behavioral issues of clinical communication. Methods Fifty-two dental students (Preclinical group) and 18 dental interns and dentists (Clinical group) played the CDPC game, which consists of 16 scenes of clinical context about dentist-patient communication (less than 40 min for playing), via web browsers. Pre-test and post-test questionnaires were used to assess their motivation, beliefs, and self-efficacy to learn behavioral issues of clinical communication. The effectiveness was examined by comparing pre-test and post-test scores within-subject and between-group difference was compared between Preclinical and Clinical groups, via non-parametric statistical tests. Results (A) In the Preclinical group, participants showed a significant increase in motivation and self-efficacy in learning after playing the CDPC game (p < 0.05, adjusted of multiple comparison). (B) In contrast, the Clinical group did not show a significant difference before vs. after playing the game. (C) After playing the game, the Preclinical group showed a significant association between motivation and beliefs (p = 0.024) and between motivation and self-efficacy (p = 0.001); the Clinical group showed a significant association between motivation and beliefs (p = 0.033). Conclusions The current evidence suggests that gamification of learning helps preclinical students to understand the context of clinical dentist-patient interaction and increase their motivation and self-efficacy to learn behavioral issues of clinical communication.

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Evaluation of a digital game for teaching behavioral aspects of clinical communication in dentistry

Lin

Yang

2023

BMC Med Educ

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Development and delivery of justice, equity, diversity, inclusion, and anti-oppression concepts in entry-level health professional education: A scoping review: BEME Guide No. 88

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McQueen,

Abu-Jurji

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External communication of Chinese traditional culture under the background of big data

Li,

Chai

2023

JCM

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Traditional culture is a symbol of a country’s existence and history. The external dissemination of traditional culture is the key to expanding the country’s influence and enhancing the country’s international image. The external dissemination of culture also poses a potential impact on the country’s economy and development. In the context of the information age, the dissemination of Chinese traditional culture is attached great importance. The culture of the Forbidden City, from self-construction to borrowing, from online to offline all-media communication channels, unique and novel cultural and creative products and a young brand image provide it with a unique means of communication. The dissemination of the Forbidden City culture is of positive significance to the demonstration of cultural confidence and the innovation and development of culture, and it can be used as a typical case of the dissemination of Chinese traditional culture. Big data technology analyzes the research object through the process of data collection, data screening and data processing, combined with various data analysis tools, and the ultimate goal is to obtain favorable results for the analyst based on the analysis. The use of big data technology in cultural communication research has gradually become the focus of current scholars. This paper takes the Forbidden City culture as the research object, analyzes the current situation of the foreign communication of the traditional culture of the Forbidden City, puts forward the dilemma of the current external communication of Chinese traditional culture based on the current situation, summarizes the problems and reasons of traditional cultural communication, and designs corresponding solutions combined with big data technology. Through the data simulation of Chinese traditional cultural communication using big data solutions, it is found that the demand satisfaction, cultural benefits after cultural communication, and the direction of cultural influence have all improved after analyzing the user’s individual needs combined with big data technology.

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An innovative approach to teaching cross-cultural communication among dental students

Cited by 3 publications

References 29 publications

Evaluation of a digital game for teaching behavioral aspects of clinical communication in dentistry

Evaluation of a digital game for teaching behavioral aspects of clinical communication in dentistry

Development and delivery of justice, equity, diversity, inclusion, and anti-oppression concepts in entry-level health professional education: A scoping review: BEME Guide No. 88

External communication of Chinese traditional culture under the background of big data

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