380: How Does Understanding Cultural Values Improve Patient Care?
The Premed Years
Ryan Gray
4.8 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 4 March 2020
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
I'm joined today by Dr. Cheo Torres to learn more about traditional medicine, cultural competency and how understanding both will make you a better physician.
Links:
Check out our YouTube channel on premed.tv
Check out Cheo Torres on Coursera
If you want to connect with Cheo, email him at cheo@unm.edu.
Know more about Cheo’s Curanderismo class every summer.
Watch Cheo’s TedTalk Connecting Modern Medicine to Traditional Healing
YouTube video where I'm talking with Marichelle about the Atlantis Fellowship program.
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| 0:45.7 | MAPCON presented by Blueprint MCAT. I will see you there. |
| 0:49.7 | The Premadir session number 380. |
| 0:54.0 | Hello and |
| 1:00.0 | and welcome to the Premid Years, where we believe that collaboration not competition is key to your success |
| 1:07.2 | I'm your host Dr. Ryan Gray and in this podcast we share with you stories |
| 1:11.2 | Encouragement and information that you need to know to |
| 1:14.2 | help guide you on your path to becoming a physician. |
| 1:18.8 | Welcome to the Premideers. Thank you so much for joining me today. I have a very interesting |
| 1:24.1 | episode today and very similar to one from, oh when was this, early January |
| 1:31.5 | where we talked about the importance of Spanish for pre-meds. |
| 1:35.0 | The episode that you're going to listen today is another episode that I recorded for this |
| 1:39.4 | soon to be released Spanish podcast or pre-med |
| 1:43.0 | podcast or Spanish for pre-meds, whatever we end up calling it. |
| 1:47.2 | And the conversation that I have today is with Dr. Chio Torres. |
| 1:53.0 | Now he is the Vice President of Student Affairs |
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