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Intercultural competence in healthcare

Seminar with Karin Schreiner

Speaker: Karin Schreiner



Date: November 18, 2026

Time: 9:00 AM to 12:30 PM

Duration: 3.5 hours (online)



Key areas:

- Culture-specific knowledge regarding the handling of health and illness concepts in other selected countries

- Culturally different ideas about illness (being ill – illness)

- Acquisition of knowledge about the sociocultural significance of illness

- Importance of social support from family in the recovery process

- Cultural differences in the expression of pain



Objectives: Development of intercultural competence in dealing with people from other cultures in an integration context; acquisition of knowledge on the topic of cultural diversity in the workplace and on health and illness in a cultural context.



Karin Schreiner holds a doctorate in the humanities and is a graduate of the Master's program in Intercultural Competencies at the German University of Ukraine (DUK). She specializes as an intercultural trainer and consultant in the field of intercultural management and founded her company, Intercultural Know How, in 2007. She also advises companies, lectures at universities and universities of applied sciences, and is the author of several specialist books.



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