Peih‐Ying Lu

CONTEXT: Globalisation and migration have inevitably shaped the objectives and content of medical education worldwide. Medical educators have responded to the consequent cultural diversity by advocating that future doctors should be culturally competent in caring for patients. As frontline clinical teachers play a key role in interpreting curriculum innovations and implementing both explicit and hidden curricula, this study investigated clinical teachers' attitudes towards cultural ...

Students' performance anxiety can impact negatively on the effectiveness of medical education reform, including performance in problem-based learning (PBL) and in using English in discussion. This study aimed to investigate the nature of performance anxiety among Taiwanese medical students in an English-language PBL group. Eighteen Taiwanese, one American and four Asian medical students who were attending an international PBL workshop were enrolled. A questionnaire seeking demographic ...

Phenomenon: There is now broad acceptance that the development of cross-cultural competence (CCC) supports the delivery of appropriate care to diverse groups and is an essential component in medical education worldwide. CCC training in East Asian contexts has been constrained by the fact that "cultural diversity" training globally has focused primarily on the needs of racial and ethnic communities, to the relative neglect of other groups. The present study explores Taiwanese students' ...

OBJECTIVE: The aim of our study was to determine the relationship between age and the incidence of pre-eclampsia and eclampsia.

MATERIALS AND METHODS: We analyzed data collected by the National Health Insurance Bureau between 1998 and 2010. Data were obtained from the Taiwanese Department of Health website and the Department of Internal Affairs.

RESULTS: The incidence of pre-eclampsia increased significantly (from 0.87% to 1.21%), but the incidence of eclampsia did not change ...