Course Description

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SPAN 208-209 is designed to help health providers to improve verbal communication skills with Spanish-speaking patients. It will help health professionals to build competence in interviewing, examining, and treating patients. It includes conversation and role-play situations in the context of different common medical situations. Students will learn the names of body parts, action verbs, and useful phrases typically used in a medical setting. Spanish concepts and correct pronunciation will be also covered.

Learner Outcomes

When you complete these courses successfully, you will be able to:

• Learn to greet and get accurate detailed personal information from patients
• Discuss parts and relationships of body organs, muscles, etc.
• Understand and use vocabulary describing pain and discomfort
• Communicate about basic ailments and illness
• Pronounce Spanish medical vocabulary and develop Spanish phrases that can be used in own role/workplace
• Discuss and understand medical situations in the past tense, to conduct a pediatric visit for failed treatment, and to treat an emergency adult asthma attack.
• Create your own specialized dialogue with different verbal structures and be able to perform a dental, eye, and dermatological exam.
• Communicate with a patient concerning STDs/STIs using the present and past progressive tense.
• Effectively communicate regarding prenatal care and childbirth
• Understand the use and expressions of the subjunctive.
• Communicate with patients concerning family planning.
• Communicate with patients about different medical specialties (emergency room, mental health, geriatric care, burn unit, neonatology, child growth and development).
• Communicate with patients about different medical specialties (emergency room, mental health, geriatric care, burn unit, neonatology, child growth and development).
• Understand some Latino cultural values and beliefs, as well as to be aware of the differences between “Anglo” and Latino behavioral patterns.

Microcredential(s)

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Textbook Information

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