Teaching Medical Spanish

Catalog description

The goal of this elective is to create a sustainable and equitable system for teaching the pre-clinical T2 medical Spanish elective. This elective will take the burden off T1 students/LMSA leaders who have historically taught the medical Spanish elective as volunteers – this has been an undue burden on T1 students for too long and is not equitable, as most of the students who have served as instructors in the past have been Latinx/Hispanic. It should not be the responsibility of these students to teach medical Spanish without receiving credit. By creating this T4 medical Spanish teaching elective, students will receive credit for their efforts, and it is much more appropriate for T4 students to serve as instructors than T1s. This is a longitudinal elective available to T4s who are bilingual Spanish speakers. Students will receive credit for teaching medical Spanish lessons to second-year medical students. Students in this elective will utilize the medical Spanish curriculum developed for TUSOM students and teach medical Spanish lessons throughout the academic year. Furthermore, as a “teaching elective,” this elective will include a mandatory session for the T4 elective participants on how to be an effective instructor.