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Spanish Language for Health Care Professionals
Intensive Conversational
Medical Spanish
and Cultural Instruction |
Accreditation |
The Medical Spanish Workshops offer
an intensive experience in which health professionals learn
to communicate effectively with Spanish-speaking patients.
The workshops consist of medical dialogues, role-playing,
colorful visual aids, cross-cultural discussions, “edutainment,”
daily practice and evening study, with workbooks and tapes.
These strategies strengthen the participants’ ability
to obtain a medical history, ask about symptoms, prescribe
and interact effectively with Spanish-speaking patients.
These accredited continuing education courses for physicians,
nurses, dentists, physician assistants, nurse practitioners
and other allied health professionals are individually tailored
to the conversational needs of the health care provider. |
The University of Arizona College
of Medicine at the Arizona Health Sciences Center is accredited
by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education
to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
The University of Arizona College of Medicine at the Arizona
Health Sciences Center designates this educational activity
for a maximum of 43 hours in Category 1 credit towards the
AMA Physician’s Recognition Award. Each physician should
claim only those hours of credit that he/she actually spent
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Learning Objectives |
Spanish Language Intensives are offered across the country
in a variety of program designs and lengths:
- Four-Day Intensive Workshop with Evening Practice Immersion:
This program allows the participant to become conversant
with advanced skills in medical Spanish language exchanges.
- Two- and Three- day Intensive Workshops with Evening Practice:
These programs go beyond the fundamentals of the one-day
program to allow the participant to converse, share and
understand basic medical information in Spanish.
- One-day Intensive Workshop: This program covers the fundamentals
needed to receive and share information when interacting
with Spanish-speaking patients; it also prepares one to
work more effectively with interpreters.
- Mini-courses such as “how to use interpreter services
in a medical setting” or “training bilingual
health care staff in interpreting techniques.”
- Eight-day intensive courses are also offered in Mexico. Where you can earn hours in Category 1 credit towards the
AMA Physician’s Recognition Award.
- Other programs can be tailored to the specific needs of
groups, who want the time configured differently and the
content specialized for their field of work.
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Participants who complete the Four-Day Immersion Workshop
will:
- Interview patients in Spanish, take a simple medical
history, conduct a physical examination, give instructions
and deal with emergencies.
- Discuss and describe medical conditions using a Spanish
vocabulary of 1,500 general and medical words.
- Discuss and use present and future tenses, as well as
some past tense and the command forms.
- Describe and discuss cultural differences in attitudes
between Hispanic/Latinos and other Americans concerning
time, space, clothing, foods, health and medical care.
- Continue to acquire additional Spanish language through
daily practice and personal experience.
Classes are small, with a minimum
of two instructors, making it possible for each student
to receive individualized attention.
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Spanish Language for Health Care Professionals
The University of Arizona Area Health Education Centers Program,
1830 E. Broadway Blvd. Suite. 136
Tucson, AZ 85719
Telephone: (520)
629-4300 ext. 121
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