Medical Spanish in US Medical Schools: a National Survey to Examine Existing Programs.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Most medical schools offer medical Spanish education to teach patient-physician communication skills with the growing Spanish-speaking population. Medical Spanish courses that lack basic standards of curricular structure, faculty educators, learner assessment, and institutional credit may increase student confidence without sufficiently improving skills, inadvertently exacerbating communication problems with linguistic minority patients.

Objective

To conduct a national environmental scan of US medical schools' medical Spanish educational efforts, examine to what extent existing efforts meet basic standards, and identify next steps in improving the quality of medical Spanish education.

Design

Data were collected from March to November 2019 using an IRB-exemp

SUBMITTER: Ortega P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8390604 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature