Course Description

This course is designed to help healthcare providers to confidently communicate with Spanish-speaking patients and to provide them with the cultural confidence needed to optimize the healthcare practice. The course will help healthcare professionals to efficiently interview, examine, and treat patients. It includes conversation and role-play in the context of different common medical situations. Students will have the opportunity to learn more complex grammar and expressions typically used in the medical setting.

This is the second part of a two-part course (part one: SPAN 208). Registration is required separately for each part of the course.

Learner Outcomes

• 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).
• Gain awareness of Latino cultural values and beliefs.

Microcredential(s)

This course applies toward the Spanish for Healthcare Providers digital badge. 

Textbook Information