西方文化课程与医学专业研究生跨文化意识的培养

Cultivating Cross-cultural Awareness of Medical Graduate Students Through Western Culture-related Courses

为提高医学专业研究生英语学习过程中的跨文化意识,作者针对选修《西方文化渊源》的学生进行了对比研究,发现本课程对于其跨文化意识的培养具有较大的促进作用,适合进一步推广为医学专业研究生英语学习过程中跨文化意识培养的模范课程。

To promote cultivation of medical graduates＇ cross-cultural awareness, the author made a comparative study of cross-cultural awareness of the medical graduate students who had taken the course Western Culture Origins at Xi＇an Jiaotong University. The findings proved that this western culture-related course, which aims to impart systematic knowledge of western culture, worked effec- tively in cultivating the students＇ cross-cultural awareness and can serve as a model course for cultiva ting cross-cultural awareness of medical graduate students.