Is Korea Ready to Be a Key Player in the Medical Tourism Industry? An English Education Perspective
Abstract
Background: This study attempted to identify the problem South Korea faces in its development of the medical tourism industry from the perspective of English education.
Methods: To assess the preparedness and problems of future Korean nurses in dealing with foreign patients, a questionnaire was conducted in 2017 on 146 freshman and sophomore nursing major students at CHA University in South Korea.
Results: Although the nursing major students were highly satisfied with the English instructors, they did not feel that the curriculum prepared them well to deal with foreign patients in the future. They also felt that the teaching methodology employed in the class should be changed to incorporate more medical content into the nursing English program.
Conclusion: In order for South Korea to play a bigger role in the medical tourism industry, higher education institutions for medicine need to pay more attention to the English education of their students. More specifically, team-taught English for Specific Purposes (ESP) curricula should be established in order to meet the needs of future medical professionals.
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2. Odonchimeg. A study on the ways for promoting medical tourism industry in South Korea [Mas-ter’s thesis]. Sunmoon University, South Korea; 2015.
3. Chinai R, Goswami R (2007). Medical visas mark growth of Indian medical tourism. Bull World Health Organ, 85(3):164-165.
4. Nautiyal S, Dogra S (2005). Medical tourism set to take off in a big way. Express Phar-ma Pulse, March.
5. Kim S, Lee J, Jung, J (2013). Assessment of medical tourism development in Korea for the achievement of competitive ad-vantages. Asia Pacific Journal of Tourism Re-search, 18(5):421-445.
6. Rokni L, Avci T, Park SH (2017). Barriers of developing medical tourism in a destina-tion: A case of South Korea. Iran J Public Health, 46(7):930-937.
7. Ferguson WJ, Candib LM (2002). Culture, language, and the doctor-patient relation-ship. Fam Med, 34(5):353-361.
8. Shapiro J, Saltzer E (1981). Cross-cultural aspects of physician-patient communica-tions patterns. Urban Health, 10(10):10-15.
9. Hooper EM, Comstock LM, Goodwin JM, Goodwin JS (1982). Patient characteristics that influence physician behavior. Med Care, 20(6):630-638.
10. Ten M. Medical tourists’ non-medical tourism expe-riences in South Korea [Master’s thesis]. Kyunghee University, South Korea; 2015.
11. Kim, M (2014). A comparison study on multicultural attitude and relating factors of nursing college students and non-nursing major students in Korea. Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial Cooperation Society, 15(4): 2310-2319.
12. Korean Accreditation Board of Nursing Education (2014). Accreditation of nursing ed-ucation guideline. Retrieved November 15, 2019, from http://kabone.or.kr/kabon02/index04.php
13. Yi M (2007). Conversation analysis for im-proving nursing communication. Journal of Korean Academy Nursing, 37(5):772-780.
14. Yang SY (2016). The effect of self-esteem and communication competence on clini-cal practice stress of the nursing students. The Journal of the Korea Contents Association, 16(9):286-296.
15. Kim YS, Park JH, Lim KY (2006). Interper-sonal conflicts and communication among medical residents, nurses and technologists. Korea Journal of Hospital Management, 11(2):16-31.
16. Lee YB, Koh MS (2015). The effect of clini-cal nurses' communication competency and emotional intelligence on organiza-tional performance. Journal of Korean Clini-cal Nursing Research, 21(3):347-354.
17. Trenholm S, Jensen A (2008). Interpersonal communication. 6th ed. New York: Oxford University Press.
18. Jeong GS, Kim KA, Seong JA (2013). The effect of learning style and critical think-ing disposition on communication skill in nursing students. The Journal of Korean Ac-ademic Society of Nursing Education, 19(3):413-422.
19. Kim JH, Lee JS (2013). The experience of clinical nurses’ interpersonal conflict. Jour-nal of Qualitative Research,14(1):70-80.
20. Lingard L, Espin S, Whyte S, Regehr G, Baker GR, Reznick R, Bohnen J, Orser B, Doran D, Grober E (2004). Communica-tion failures in the operating room: An observational classification of recurrent types and effects. Quality & Safety in Health Care, 13:330-334.
21. Bae SH, Park JS (2013). The recognition of achievement and importance of nursing program outcome among nursing stu-dents. The Journal of Korean Academic Society of Nursing Education, 19(2):203-214.
22. Brindley, GP (1984). Needs analysis and objective setting in the adult migrant education program, Sydney: NSW Adult Migrant Education Service.
23. Hutchinson T, Waters A (1987). English for specific purposes. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
24. Kim SM, Jin KN, Min HJ (2017). Factors af-fecting nurses’ stress: Focusing on for-eign patient relationships. Korean Public Health Research, 43(2):11-19
25. Jung HS. The development of ESP curricu-lum through Korean nurses’ needs analy-sis [PhD thesis]. Kyungnam University, South Korea; 2018.
26. Lee JS. ESP course design for medical pro-fessionals based on needs analysis [PhD thesis]. Kangwon University, South Ko-rea; 2011.
27. Davies A (2001). The logic of testing lan-guages for specific purposes. Language Testing, 18(2):133-147.
28. Hwang HJ (2001). Content-based instruc-tion in ESP. Journal of Secretarial Studies, 10(1):87-99.
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| Issue | Vol 49 No 2 (2020) | |
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| DOI | https://doi.org/10.18502/ijph.v49i2.3089 | |
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| Medical tourism; English education Nursing; Korea | ||
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KIM C, LEE SY, PARK S-H. Is Korea Ready to Be a Key Player in the Medical Tourism Industry? An English Education Perspective. Iran J Public Health. 2020;49(2):267-273.
