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The program targeted medical students ahead of third-year clerkships by offering Spanish language and culturally related instruction at varying proficiency levels using an experienced Spanish for Specific Purposes (SSP) instructor. 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Objectives included offering a refresher course in Spanish for medical students before third-year clerkships and providing a model for medical schools interested in developing medical Spanish courses. The pilot course included the teaching of Spanish language and related cultural information to students at varying levels of Spanish proficiency by an experienced Spanish for Specific Purposes (SSP) instructor. Students completed an evaluation to suggest future directions for the course. The results suggest that a medical Spanish course for medical students can indeed be added to U.S. medical school curricula.  \nIntroduction  \nWe use language to communicate thoughts and information and to reveal our needs (Modern Language Association, 2007) . In the medical field, language is a critical tool for delivering and receiving quality care.  \nIn the U.S., many pre-medical students enroll in Spanish courses in secondary school and in college. Some medical students have taken Spanish for Specific Purposes (SSP) courses prior to medical school, but still lack the specialized vocabulary and specific Spanish language skills or proficiency level needed to interact with and care for their Spanish-speaking patients appropriately. Many medical students with some experience in the Spanish language seek out opportunities to maintain, practice, and expand these skills; however, these students find few options to do so during medical school, as specific courses in medical Spanish are typically absent from U.S. medical school curricula.  \nA review of the recent literature points to a deficit in high quality healthcare available to Spanish-speaking patients in the U.S. because of the inability of physicians and other health care providers to communicate effectively in languages other than English (Morales, Cunningham, Brown, & Hays, 1994). As of July 1, 2006, the Hispanic population in the U.S. totaled 44.8 million, which is  \n2 Dimension 2012: World Languages: Learners Wanted  \n14.8% of the total population (U.S. Census Bureau, 2006), making Spanish-speaking patients a part of any physician’s practice.  \nMedical students have limited curricular and extra-curricular time for formal and informal language acquisition and maintenance. Because of time-constraints, there are few options to add Spanish classes to medical school curricula. To begin to work toward a solution, we developed a brief pilot course in medical Spanish for medical students, which took place at The University of Alabama School of Medicine in January 2010.1  \nA way to develop, fund, and pilot a medical Spanish course at UASOM became available through a program called the Scholarly Research Activity (SRA) .2 The only course length available for medical Spanish elective was a one-week intensive course. A course of this type has yet to be documented in the literature.  \nLiterature Review  \nAlthough the literature pertaining to the success of teaching medical Spanish to medical students is limited, there are a few institutions that have provided models of such courses. No medical schools offered the same one-week format as the UASOM pilot. The following models illustrate the demand formedical Spanish as well as a variety of responses. They show that the Spanish and the medical professions have indeed begun to work together. Because of the scarcity of comparable courses, we include examples that describe Spanish language education targeting undergraduate pre-medical students, medical students, medical residents, and established physicians, although the pilot course at this institution was taught","cbCaijNFvHBFpSQz","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaijNFvHBFpSQz","pdf",45355,13,"English","# Introduction\n## Literature Review\n# Pilot Case Study Outcomes","[{\"question\":\"What was the purpose of the one-week medical Spanish pilot course in January 2010?\",\"answer\":\"To expand medical Spanish teaching for medical students by offering a refresher before third-year clerkships and creating a model medical schools could use to develop similar courses.\"},{\"question\":\"Who delivered and how was the course structured for different Spanish proficiency levels?\",\"answer\":\"An experienced Spanish for Specific Purposes (SSP) instructor taught Spanish language and related cultural information, with students at varying levels of Spanish proficiency.\"},{\"question\":\"What did the results suggest about adding medical Spanish to U.S. medical curricula?\",\"answer\":\"The results suggest that a medical Spanish course for medical students can indeed be added to U.S. medical school curricula.\"}]","Medical Spanish for U.S. Medical Students - A Pilot Case Study | PDF",1792091653,33]