THE TERM “CULTURAL HUMILITY” IN THE CONTEXT OF MEDICAL STUDENTS TRAINING

Abstract

The article compares the terms intercultural competence and cultural humility that are currently used to formulate the objective of medical students training. The author suggests a variant of translation from English into Russian for the term cultural humility. It is concluded that researchers oftentimes underestimate the dynamic nature of intercultural competence and ignore the evidence of its development through life.

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