Introduction to Medical Spanish

Catalog description

Communicative approach course for health and nursing professionals whose main goal is to train students to interact effectively with patients whose native language is Spanish. It is about addressing the appropriate vocabulary, structures, formulas and expressions to relate to patients and adequately inform them about the diagnosis, medication, treatments or therapies to follow. It is also about developing tolerance towards the cultural norms and beliefs of patients, so that nurse-patient communication is more effective. In this sense, the course tries to raise awareness of possible cultural prejudices and increase cultural competence to interact with Hispanic patients.