Instead of heading to an exotic resort for some sun this summer, some Nevada State College alumni enrolled in a medical Spanish course in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico, to learn to communicate better ...

Officials at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics will offer a new Spanish course this spring for the medical staff to better accommodate the growing Latino population in Iowa. The class is ...

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 ...

A growing Hispanic population is rapidly increasing the need for bilingual healthcare providers and many universities have risen to the challenge of preparing students by offering courses in medical ...

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 ...

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 ...

IOWA CITY, Iowa (KCRG) - Health care providers at University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics are working to keep patients’ fears from being lost in translation. For several years, staff have had the ...

With the state's significant and growing Latino population, the University of Arkansas at Little Rock is aiming to help medical professionals better communicate with Spanish speakers. "To go into a ...

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 ...

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.