SPANISH FOR HEALTHCARE PROFESSIONS

Catalog description

Spanish for Health Care Professions is a course designed for students interested in the medical professions or are planning to work as Health Care professionals. Its main focus is to enhance communicative language skills and develop professional medical vocabulary, grammar structures and understanding Hispanic cultures from a medical perspective. It addresses diversity, equity and inclusion in the profession and in assisting Hispanic patients from different backgrounds. Students will review grammatical structures needed to interact with patients such as asking questions, giving commands and reporting medical history in the present, past and future tenses. Thus, the purpose of this course is to enable you to communicate well and accurately in Spanish, in a culturally competent manner, with your patients in healthcare encounters. Spanish for Health Care professions is recommended to students with intermediate advanced level or have completed Span 301 or its equivalent.