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Medical Spanish

Beginning Medical Spanish

Mark Rowan
Mark Rowan

Enrichment Elective - ELEC 5006
Instructor: Mark Rowan
Class:   TBA
E-mail: rowanm@uthscsa.edu

 

Course Materials

  • ISBN: 0-300-09715-8
    Chase, Robert O & Clarisa B. Medina. 2003. An Introduction to Spanish for Health Care Workers:  Communication and Culture (2nd Ed.).  New Haven: Yale University Press.

Course Description

Spanish ClassThis course is not a Spanish language class per se, but is designed to teach medical students how to do specific tasks in Spanish. As such, there is no specific Spanish prerequisite to be enrolled in this course. Students who are interested in acquiring Spanish language in general are invited to enroll in traditional Spanish courses.

 

Course Objectives

  • Student will feel confident in brief, basic conversation in Spanish using medical and health-care related expressions and terminology.
  • Students will be able to articulate and respond to patient concerns.
  • Students will be able to conduct basic interviews (assessments) in Spanish, such as a health history or physical assessment.
  • Students will understand cultural and social factors that influence the practitioner-patient communication with Latino peoples and immigrants to the U.S.
  • Students will know their limits and continue to use interpreters as needed

Advanced Medical Spanish

 

Gabriela Martínez
Mark Rowan

Enrichment Elective - ELEC 5006
Instructor: Gabriela Martínez
Class:   TBA
E-mail: martinezgi@uthscsa.edu

 

Course Materials

Advanced Medical Spanish Manual. UTHSCSA Spring 2008.

 

Optional:

  1. Lippincott Williams and Wilkins. 2004. Medical Spanish made Incredibly Easy (2nd edition).
  2. Ortega, Pilar. 2006. Spanish and the Medical Interview. A Textbook for Clinically Relevant Medical Spanish.
  3. Lippincott Williams and Wilins. 2004. English and Spanish Medical Words and Phrases (3rd edition).

Course Description

10 weeks for 1 hr. sessions

 

This course is designed to provide students with the specific medical vocabulary and terminology necessary tocommunicate with and help treat Latino patients Spanish Classwith limited English proficiency.  This class is restricted to students who have previous knowledge of the Spanish language and have reached at least an Intermediate level.  The course will include specific vocabulary groups relating to assessment and care of patients, vocabulary to establish rapport, and discussions leading to cultural competencies. Students will be able to ask questions and provide answers in common medical situations in Spanish, conduct patient interviews, write medical histories, learn how to conduct physical exams in Spanish and discuss readings related to the field.

Course Objectives

At the end of the course the students will be able to do the following with a Spanish-speaking patient only:

1) Inquire about the chief complaint of a patient.
2) Obtain the history of the complaint.
3) Complete the review of systems.
4) Obtain the pertinent personal and family antecedents.
5) Complete the general physical examination.
6) Formulate a treatment plan that is culturally sensitive.