Spanish and the Medical Interview: A Textbook for Clinically Relevant Medical Spanish - Softcover

Ortega MD, Pilar

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1416036490 ISBN 13: 9781416036494

Publisher: Saunders, 2006

Synopsis

You can't treat your patients if you can't communicate effectively with them. This textbook will make you proficient in medical Spanish and enhance your clinical interviews with Spanish-speaking patients. It reviews basic Spanish grammar and sentence structure, then addresses each aspect of the medical interview, teaching you to build upon these basic skills and learn to apply them in a clinical context. This is THE medical Spanish book for medical students, residents, and physicians!

• Focused on unique vocabulary, context, and needs of a physician conducting a clinical interview with Spanish-speaking patient
• Accessible to all levels of students and practitioners who need basic Spanish skills in a clinical context
• Organized to follow the natural progression of the physician-patient encounter, as taught in US medical schools
• Provides ease of use and relevant, effective content critical for physicians to understand and effectively communicate with non-US patients

About this title

About the Author:

Pilar Ortega, MD is a board-certified Emergency Physician and Assistant Professor at the U. Illinois at Chicago, where she directs the Medical Spanish program. Dr. Ortega is Co-founder and Chair for the Medical Organization for Latino Advancement (MOLA), a non-profit professional association whose goal is to increase the number of Hispanic and bilingual physicians and to improve the health of Hispanics in the U.S. She is the author of our Spanish and the Medical Interview (2nd Ed., 2015), a textbook for providers to learn to communicate with Spanish-speaking patients. This new titles would be a cases and question companion to the textbook. Dr. Ortega is the director of the recently developed U.S. National Medical Spanish Taskforce-a group of interdisciplinary and inter-institutional leaders who are developing an evidence-based process for Medical Spanish standardization and language concordance research in medical settings. She is internationally recognized for her contributions on the topics of language concordance in health, linguistic competency assessment, and Medical Spanish education.

About this edition

• Publisher: Saunders
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 1416036490
• ISBN 13: 9781416036494
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 192