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WCM-Q’s Health and YOU webinars promote community wellness


March 26, 2024
WCM-Q’s Health and YOU webinars promote community wellness

Research

Cultural Competence and Communication Skills

Publications

Bylund CL, Alyafei K, Afana A, Al-Romaihi S, Yassin M, Elnashar M, Al-Arab B, Al-Khal A. Satisfaction with a 2-day communication skills course culturally tailored for medical specialists in Qatar. J Fam Community Med. 2017 May-Aug;24(2):122-127. doi: 10.4103/2230-8229.205118. 


Abdelrahim H, Elnashar M, Khidir A, Killawi A, Maya Hammoud, Al-Khal A & Fetters M. Patient Perspectives on Language Discordance During Healthcare Visits: Findings From the Extremely High-Density Multicultural State of Qatar. Journal of Health Communication. 2017 Apr;22(4):355-363. doi: 10.1080/10810730.2017. 


AlRawi S, Khidir A, Elnashar M, Abdelrahim H, Killawi A, Hammoud M & Fetters M. Traditional Arabic & Islamic Medicine: validation and empirical assessment of a conceptual model in Qatar.  BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine. 2017 Mar 14;17(1):157. doi: 10.1186/s12906-017-1639-x. 


Bylund C, Alyafei K, Anand A, Al Marri A, Omer W, Sinha T, Alam W, Abdelrahim H, Al-Khal A. Implementing and tailoring a western-developed communication skills training program for graduate medical trainees in Qatar. International Journal of Medical Education. Jan 2017;8:16-18. Doi: 10.5116/ijme.5856.72b4. 2016. 

 

Elnashar, M; Abdelrahim, H; Fetters, MD (2012). Cultural Competence Springs Up in the Desert: The Story of the Center for Cultural Competence in Health Care at Weill Cornell Medical College in Qatar. Academic Medicine 87(6): 759-766.

Presentations

2020 Oral presentation Doraiswamy S. Provider –Patient relations - The Elephant in the room?. Healthcare Communications in the Middle East Virtual Conference, Nov 21, 2020.
qatar-weill.cornell.edu/event/hc/schedule/workshop/session-iiif-provider-patient-relations---the-elephant-in-the-room-a-thought-paper
2020 Oral presentation Anand R, Cheema S. The anatomy of social media content in healthcare. Healthcare Communications in the Middle East Virtual Conference, Nov 21, 2020.
qatar-weill.cornell.edu/event/hc/schedule/workshop/session-iib-the-anatomy-of-social-media-content-in-healthcare
2020 Oral presentation Elnashar M, Abdelrahim H. Cultural competence in Healthcare. Healthcare Communications in the Middle East Virtual Conference, Nov 20, 2020.
qatar-weill.cornell.edu/event/hc/schedule/workshop/culturally-sensitive-communication 
2017 Oral presentation Elnashar M, Abdelrahim H. Cultural competency and capacity building. Pre-symposium workshop - Building capacity in healthcare professions symposium, Weill Cornell Medicine-Qatar (WCM-Q), Doha, February 19, 2017.
2016 Poster presentation Elnashar M, Abdelrahim H, Mahfoud Z, Major S.  Promoting and Assessing Cultural Competency in a clinical setting among Medical Students at Weill Cornell Medicine-Qatar (WCM-Q).  International Association for Medical Education  Conference (AMEE), Barcelona, Spain, June 2016. 
2015 Poster presentation Elnashar M, Abdelrahim H. A pioneering Initiative towards Culturally linguistically appropriate health care: The Center for Cultural Competence in healthcare at Weill Cornell Medical College in Qatar. Innovation in Global Medical & Health Education Forum, Doha, Qatar, January 18, 2015.
2014 Oral presentation Mamtani R. Culturally Competent Patient Centered Healthcare: A Special Focus on Qatar. “Setting the Stage” Qatar’s first Cultural Competence in Healthcare symposium, Doha, March 17, 2014.
2010 Poster presentation Khidir A, Fetters M, Elnashar M, Abdelrahim H, Alkhal A, Alrawi S, Hammoud M. Preliminary results of a multilingual, multicultural survey design. Qatar Foundation Annual Research Conference 2010. Doha, Qatar.