Overall, respondents rated themselves less competent at intercultural tasks than at basic medical skills and less competent at specific intercultural communication skills than at general intercultural skills.
Our study results are supported by other studies which concluded that nurse-midwives' communication skills and the interaction with the client need to be improved and highlighted that basic medical skill also important to be improved [ 24, 25, 34, 39].
Overview of skill training sessions in the medical curriculum UMC Utrecht Faculty of Medicine in year 1 and 2: 16 physical examination training sessions and 11 other basic medical skills training sessions (see Table 4).> -wrap-foot> physicalcal examination BMS basic medical skill.
The questionnaire includes 40 questions covering three sections of health-related knowledge, including basic knowledge (20 questions), healthy lifestyle and behaviour (15 questions), and basic medical skills (5 questions), and several questions about the approaches with which respondents access information on health-related knowledge.
The overall and subsections' (basic knowledge and concept, health lifestyle and behaviour, and basic medical skills) health-related knowledge scores are compared by characteristics (table 3).
The proportion of students answering correctly more than 80% of the questions were 3.7%, 13%and35%5%, respectively, for basic knowledge and concept, healthy lifestyle and behaviour, and basic medical skills sections.
In another survey based on college students in Beijing, China where many highly ranked Chinese universities locate, the proportion of students with adequate health-related knowledge is 24.8%, and the percentages are 41.8%, 13.4% and 73%, respectively, for basic health knowledge and concept, healthy lifestyle and behaviour, and basic medical skills.
The soldiers had to go through the same training as other soldiers, shooting weapons, driving military vehicles, learning basic medical skills, appropriate reactions to attacks and techniques to identify and respond to improvised explosive devices.
To prepare the students for these early clerkships, in the first two years of the programme students learn how to perform the basics of physical examination (e.g., examination of lungs, elbow or neurological examination) and other basic medical skills (e.g., intramuscular injections or resuscitation).
