Last summer, second-year medical student Richa Sharma was working in the labor and delivery ward of a health care center in Spain when she witnessed a birth that was fast becoming a crisis situation.

Georgetown University’s Medical Spanish Initiative (MSI), a program for students to learn how to speak Spanish in healthcare settings, launched a new partnership with the Arlington Free Clinic (AFC) ...

At its core, the medical profession is founded on human connections. Long before the advent of modern medicine, let alone a relative understanding of science and the human body, care revolved around ...

IOWA CITY — Speaking a different language in a health care setting cannot only prevent patients from communicating aches and pains or doctors from relaying important medical news or instructions — it ...

Elizabethtown College’s School for Graduate and Professional Studies has launched a graduate certificate program in Medical Spanish. The 15-credit online certificate program includes five courses and ...

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- The Latino Medical Student Association at the Fertitta Family College of Medicine has multiplied from a handful of students to more than 40 members. These University of ...

Columbia resident Benjamin Guillen, 51, is his parents’ caretaker. When the medical clinics they go to don’t offer services in Spanish, Guillen said staff use a technology screen to translate.

Dallas – July 5, 2006 – Fluency in "medical Spanish," acquired through a one-of-a-kind education program at UT Southwestern Allied Health Sciences School, has helped Jill Conway, a physician assistant ...

Princeton’s Department of Spanish and Portuguese offers several ProCES (Program for Community-Engaged Scholarship) courses, including “Spanish in the Community,” “Medical Spanish” and “Spanish for a ...

As the Hispanic population in the United States continues to grow, so too does the need for medical professionals who can communicate with their patients in Spanish. To prepare for this growing need, ...