Curriculum

InterHealth– Intercultural Competences for Healthcare Professionals – is a strategic partnerships project for vocational education and training which is part of the Erasmus+ programmefunded with support from the European Commission. The project will last from October 2016 until December 2018.

InterHealth aims to increase the intercultural competences of healthcare professionals in Europe, through non-formal training. The main objective is to trainthem with the intercultural competences required to provide a superior quality of medical and healthcare services. The tailored training developed within the projectwas designing to cover the needs offinal beneficiaries, namely culturally diverse populations such as migrants, refugees and other ethnic minorities.

To do so, partners from Austria, France, Greece and Spain developeda Curriculum keeping in mind that non-formal educational methods could be combined with formal education for healthcare professionals and could improve quality of care provided within the healthcare system in European countries.

Therefore, partners conducted a state of the art / training needs analysisnotably interviewing health professionalsand final beneficiaries. The overall state of the art included context analysis, needs and recommendations.

The above-mentioned state of the art enabledpartners to have, at national and European levels,an overview of healthcare professionals’ needs and intercultural competences. In other words, issueshealth professionals deal with in theirdaily practice as well as intercultural educationoffer (formal and non-formal education) and challenges they meet to develop intercultural competences.

Based on the state of the art, partner developed InterHealthCurriculum on the following four themes:

• Interreligious competences,
• Intercultural communication and counselling,
• Self-awareness for professional health-carer,
• Managementin healthcare settings.

The curriculum can be downloaded here.