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ArticleCureus2025

The Challenges of Multiculturalism in Belgian Emergency Services: An Exploration of Emergency Physicians' Experiences, Attitudes and Intercultural Competence.

Adèle Vincent, Erdem Yılmaz, Frédéric Thys

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Article in Cureus, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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Adèle VincentEmergency Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Cliniques Universitaires Saint-Luc, Catholic University of Louvain, Brussels, BEL.
Erdem YılmazSocial and Cultural Psychology, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, KU Leuven, Leuven, BEL.
Frédéric ThysAcute Medicine, Grand Hospital of Charleroi (GHdC), Charleroi, BEL.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The increasing cultural diversity in Belgium necessitates an understanding of the challenges faced by emergency physicians in treating migrant patients. Cultural differences influence how patients experience and communicate their symptoms while migration often alters individuals' ways of being and relating to others. Despite the critical importance of these issues, no prior studies to the best of our knowledge have examined the culture-specific challenges faced by emergency physicians in Belgium. This exploratory study aims to address this gap by investigating these challenges and evaluating physicians' levels of cultural sensitivity and self-reported intercultural competence. An online survey was conducted between September and December 2023 with 50 emergency physicians (62% female, 36% male, M

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cross-cultural communicationcultural adaptationcultural differencescultural sensitivityemergency medicineimmigrationintercultural competencemigrant healthmulticulturalism

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PMID39996217
PMCPMC11848225

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