Medical Spanish curriculum & course materials

  1. Cesari WA, Brescia WF, Harricharan Singh K, et al. Medical Spanish. MedEdPORTAL Publications. May 8, 2012. https://www.mededportal.org/publication/9171/.
  2. Cowden, John D., Darcy A. Thompson, Jennifer Ellzey, and Michael Artman. (2012). “Getting Past Getting By: Training Culturally and Linguistically Competent Physicians.” The Journal of Pediatrics 160.6: 891–92.
  3. Dawson AL, Patti B. Spanish Acquisition Begets Enhanced Service (S.A.B.E.S.): A beginning-level medical Spanish curriculum. MedEdPORTAL Publications. December 7, 2011. https://www.mededportal.org/publication/9057/.
  4. Diamond, L.C., Jacobs, E.A. Let’s Not Contribute to Disparities: The Best Methods for Teaching Clinicians How to Overcome Language Barriers to Health Care. J Gen Intern Med. 2010 May;25 Suppl 2: S189-93. doi: 10.1007/s11606-009-1201-8. PMID: 20352518; PMCID: PMC2847098.  http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20352518
  5. Díaz-Rubio E. Suplemento Monográfico, Actualidad de la Real Academia Nacional de Medicina de España: Diccionario Panhispánico de Términos Médicos y Foro Español Médico en Harvard (10 suppl). Madrid, Spain: Real Academia Nacional de Medicina; 2017.
  6. Diccionario panhispánico de términos médicos. https://dptm.ranm.es.
  7. Ghaddar S, Ronnau J, Saladin SP, Martínez G. Innovative Approaches to Promote a Culturally Competent, Diverse Health Care Workforce in an Institution Serving Hispanic Students. Acad Med. 2013;88(12): 1870-6.
  8. Hardin K. Targeting Oral and Cultural Proficiency for Medical Personnel: An Examination of Current Medical Spanish Textbooks. Hispania 95.4 (2012): 698–713.
  9. Hardin KJ, Hardin DM.  Medical Spanish programs in the United States: a critical review of published studies and a proposal of best practices. Teach Learn Med. 2013;25(4):306-11.
  10.  Jacobs, E.A., Diamond, L.C., Stevak, L. The Importance of Teaching Clinicians When and How to Work with Interpreters. Patient Educ Counts. 2010 Feb;78(2):149-53. doi: 10.1016/j.pec.2009.12.001. Epub 2009 Dec 29. PMID:20036480. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=20036480
  11. Maben, Kevin and Allison Dobbie. (2005). “Current Practices in Medical Spanish Teaching in US Medical Schools.” Family Medicine 37.9: 613–14.
  12. Manetta, Alberto, Frances Stephens, José Rea, and Charles Vega. (2007). “Addressing Health Care Needs of the Latino Community: One Medical School’s Approach.” Academic Medicine 82.12: 1145–51
  13. Morales R, Rodríguez L, Singh A, et al. National survey of medical Spanish curriculum in U.S. medical schools. J Gen Int Med 2015;30(10): 434-439.
  14. O’Rourke K, Gruener G, Quinones D, Stratta E, Howell J. Spanish bilingual medical student certification. MedEdPORTAL Publications. April 24, 2013. https://www.mededportal.org/publication/9400/.
  15. Ortega P, Park YS, Girotti JA. Evaluation of a Medical Spanish Elective for Senior Medical Students: Improving Outcomes through OSCE Assessments. Med Sci Educ. 2017;27(2):329-337. 
  16. Ortega P, Pérez N, Turmelle Y, Robles B, Acosta D. Teaching Medical Spanish to Improve Population Health. AAMC-CDC Diversity 360 Webinar, 2018. (https://www.aamc.org/initiatives/diversity/portfolios/485628/medicalspanishwebinar.html)
  17. Ortega P. Spanish and the Medical Interview: A Textbook for Clinically Relevant Medical Spanish, 2nd ed. Philadelphia, PA, Elsevier. 2015
  18. Pérez N. Student Acceptance of Clinical Conversational Spanish in Medical Curriculum. Cogent Medicine. 2018 May; 5: 1475691
  19. Rampal A, Wang C, Kalisvaart J. Pediatric medical Spanish vignettes. MedEdPORTAL Publications. July 29, 2009. https://www.mededportal.org/publication/5110/.
  20. Reuland DS, Frasier PY, Slatt LM, Alemán MA. A longitudinal medical Spanish program at one US medical school. J Gen Intern Med. 2008 Jul;23(7):1033-7.
  21. Reuland, Daniel S., Lisa M. Slatt, Marco A. Alemán, Alicia Fernández, and Darren DeWalt. (2012). “Effect of Spanish Language Immersion Rotations on Medical Student Spanish Fluency.” Family Medicine 44.2: 110–16.
  22. Chang, K.E., Lewis, J. & Lopez Vera, A. A comprehensive medical Spanish curriculum model: the Vida Medical Spanish Curriculum. BMC Med Educ 23, 488 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12909-023-04473-0