Volunteer program for immigrant doctors to improve medical English gets big boost

cross-posted from: https://ibbit.at/post/156444

Romel Castillo, a family physician originally from Cuba, learned much more than words when he joined a fledgling program to brush up on his medical English.

He learned the unspoken language of practising medicine in Canada, where concepts such as patient privacy, cultural competency and shared decision-making can be different than in an immigrant doctor’s homeland.

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