Am J Psychiatry 1979; 136:1064-1067
Copyright © 1979 by American Psychiatric Association
A language-cultural course for foreign psychiatric residents
GK Arthur, R Brooks and ML Long
Foreign medical graduates are an important component of the health care
system in the United States. All foreign medical graduates have
acculturation problems, but they are especially aggravating among foreign
psychiatric residents. These difficulties affect the personal lives of the
foreign residents as well as crucial teacher-student and doctor-patient
relationships. The authors report on an effort to further define these
problems in a residency program and their systematic attempts to solve them
by offering a special course. The program they describe benefitted not only
the foreign residents but their families and the residency program itself.
