Medical Students as Medical Spanish Standardized Patients for Peer-to-Peer Communication Skills Practice and Feedback.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

With the growing Hispanic population in the US and shortage of Spanish-speaking physicians, language barriers in health care persist. Training Spanish-speaking medical students as Standardized Patients (SPs) offers a promising strategy to enhance Medical Spanish communication skills and cultural competence among mainland US medical students. This module assesses the effectiveness of training medical students to serve as Spanish-speaking SPs to support Medical Spanish education.

Methods

The module was implemented in two phases. In Phase 1, 16 Spanish-speaking medical students from the University of Puerto Rico School of Medicine were trained as Medical Spanish SPs. Their confidence in SP tasks was evaluated pre- and posttraining using a Likert scale (0 = no co

SUBMITTER: Bresciani D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12615841 | biostudies-literature | 2025

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature