Spanish for Healthcare Workers (SPAN 5018)
Dates: Tuesdays, April 9 - June 18, 2024 (No class on May 28, 2024)
Times: 6:30-8:30 p.m.
Delivery: Live instruction via Zoom classroom
Textbook: Access to an eBook and four months of unlimited access to online educational materials are included with the registration fee
Cost: $495
Registration: Register for SPAN 5018
Optional Student Resource (not included in registration fee):
Basic Spanish for Medical Personnel: 2nd Enhanced Edition by Ana C. Jarvis Houghton Mifflin Company. 2011. ISBN-13: 9781285052188
Hola, me llamo Pat y soy su enfermera (o)
(Hello, my name is Pat and I will be your nurse)
Spanish for the Medical Professional is a course designed to help medical professionals to communicate effectively through conversational competence at a basic level with Spanish-speaking patients in a medical setting.
By the end of the course, students will learn how to:
- Apply medical vocabulary in routine medical situations.
- Write simple memos and health related reports.
- Demonstrate basic understanding of some Hispanic/Latino cultural medical practices and the patient-doctor dynamic and relationship.
- Describe signs and symptoms from the most common diseases in the United States
- Demonstrate basic skills to conduct a patient interview in Spanish.
Personal Care Home Administrators, Assisted Living Administrators
The Bureau of Human Services Licensing has approved this course for 6 CEU’s (6 hours) toward the annual 24 CEU’s of training. (You must provide a copy of your PCHA and/or your ALA certificate, and completed evaluation prior to awarding your certificate of completion)
If you have any questions, please contact ce@york.psu.edu.