Health Literacy Training Critical for Medical Residency Transformation in the United Arab Emirates

Given the lack of an exact estimation of population health literacy levels in various countries, the global health care work force is oblivious to the perils of poor health literacy (Zimmerman & Woolf, 2014). Health care providers lack adequate knowledge and skills to work effectively with patients who possess limited health literacy, especially in countries with multiethnic, multicultural populations (Nair, Sreedharan, et al., 2023). BMC Health Services Research, 23, 518.