Dental/dental hygiene trainees discuss managing patient care and trust. (2023)
…three of our operative residents you’d spend time with every day were practicing Muslims, so things like that. So, then you establish this relationship with people who are born in a different country or speak a different language or have a different culture. And then, all of a sudden, you have this working relationship. And then that’s back and forth between the two of you, and then pretty soon you have a patient enter the picture. So, you have an Arab-speaking patient, and then you can call upon your Arab-speaking faculty. And then you have this bigger relationship now, and you can see how they interact. So I think even from D1 year, you begin to learn without even realizing it, inherently.