多元文化融入醫學教育——一瞥醫學人文的新頁

Multiculturalism Integrating to Medical Education-A Glance at New Page of Medical Humanities

在當今多元文化社會變遷下，醫療服務提供者需正視病人多元文化背景，醫學教育者則有責任培育具備文化能力的醫療人員，以應對不同病人的需求。儘管醫學文化能力已納入醫學院的課程，然其多元文化的批判性意涵仍顯不足。由於臺灣多元文化觀點的醫學人文教育尚處於初期發展階段，本文將探討臺灣醫學教育中具批判意涵的多元文化文獻，並借鑒國外多元文化醫學教育的發展歷程，著重「批判性」與「批判主義」。多元文化能力課程設計的目標在於培養醫學生的反思與批判能力，有助於醫學生重建自我價值觀和世界觀，結合多元化、公平、包容與歸屬感（diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging, DEIB）與醫學教育互融，成為健康照護領域的重要焦點，提供臺灣醫學多元文化能力課程的發展與設計之方向。

Facing the trend and development of multiculturalism and societal changes, healthcare providers must acknowledge and address the diverse cultural backgrounds of patients, while medical educators bear the responsibility of cultivating culturally competent healthcare professionals to meet the needs of diverse patient populations. Although cultural competence has been incorporated into medical school curricula, its critical multicultural implications remain insufficiently developed. As the multicultural perspective of medical humanities education in Taiwan is still in its nascent stages, this paper explores critical multicultural literature within Taiwan’s medical education and draws insights from the development of multicultural medical education abroad, emphasizing ''criticality'' and ''critical theory''. The goal of multicultural competence curriculum design is to foster medical students' reflective and critical thinking skills, enabling them to reconstruct their values and worldviews. By integrating diversity, equity, inclusion, belonging, (DEIB) principles into medical education, this approach has become a pivotal focus in healthcare education. Ultimately, this paper aims to provide direction for the development and design of Taiwan's multicultural competence curriculum in medical education.(J Med Health. 2025;14(3):1-10)