Spanish and the Medical Interview: Clinical Cases and Exam Review

Offering a practical, case-based approach, Spanish and the Medical Interview: Clinical Cases and Exam Review is a unique, immersive study and review resource for medical Spanish. It provides extensive training and review in two formats: the print book contains numerous cases spanning a wide variety of clinical settings, formatted as a patient would present for medical attention, while the audio cases provide multiple opportunities to hone your listening comprehension skills. Together, these learning components test your knowledge and skills in caring for Spanish-speaking patients and prepare you for case-based examinations that test clinical skills in Spanish. This first-of-its-kind title is ideal as a stand-alone resource or as a companion to Dr. Ortega's Spanish and the Medical Interview: A Textbook for Clinically Relevant Medical Spanish. Helps you improve your interviewing skills, your understanding of patient responses, and your ability to explain a diagnosis and plan of care to Spanish-speaking patients, so you can provide a higher quality of patient care and safety in your practice. Covers multiple presentations of cases in main organ system areas, including musculoskeletal, cardiovascular, pulmonary, gastrointestinal, endocrine, genitourinary, neurologic, psychiatric, eye/ear/nose/throat, and pediatric, in multiple patient care settings such as urgent care, emergency department, outpatient clinic, and inpatient wards. Focuses on topics that are particularly common in Hispanic/Latino patients and includes cultural health issues that may impact the patient's understanding of medical information, belief system, decision-making preferences, or access to care-all of which have a significant impact on your medical decision making and interviewing styles and effectiveness. Leads you through key information for each case, prompting you to use your medical Spanish clinical skills in a series of prompts and questions as the case unfolds. Assessment questions follow each case to test your comprehension. Provides more than two dozen audio cases to improve your listening comprehension of different nationalities and accents of Spanish-speaking patients. Provides real-world content from Drs. Pilar Ortega and Marco Alemán, who serve on the steering committee for the national, interdisciplinary Medical Spanish Taskforce that aims to standardize the educational approach to a national assessment examination for Medical Spanish. Expands your global skills set: in your home country, when caring for patients who speak Spanish, or when caring for patients in other countries through global medicine programs. Enhanced eBook version included with purchase. Your enhanced eBook allows you to access all of the text, figures, and references from the book on a variety of devices.

List of contents

1.  ¡Bienvenidos! Welcome & Introduction
2. Musculoskeletal/dermatologic cases
 Case 1 - Knee pain
 Case 2 - Motor vehicle collision
 Case 3 - Rash
3. Cardiovascular cases
 Case 1 - Chest pain
 Case 2 - Fatigue
 Case 3 - Syncope
 Case 4 - Palpitations
4. Pulmonary cases
 Case 1 - Shortness of breath
 Case 2 - Cough
 Case 3 - Wheezing
5. Gastrointestinal cases
 Case 1 - Abdominal pain
 Case 2 - Rectal bleeding
 Case 3 - Diarrhea
6. Endocrine cases
 Case 1 - Fatigue
 Case 2 - Abdominal pain
 Case 3 - High blood sugar reading
7. Genitourinary cases
 Case 1 - Vomiting
 Case 2 - Flank pain
 Case 3 - Discharge
 Case 4 - Irregular menses
8. Neurologic cases
 Case 1 - Weakness
 Case 2 - Seizure
 Case 3 - Headache
9. Psychiatric cases
 Case 1 - Chest pain
 Case 2 - Depression
 Case 3 - Insomnia
 Case 4 - Hallucinations
10. Eye/ear/nose/throat cases
 Case 1 - Vertigo
 Case 2 - Epistaxis
 Case 3 - Blurry vision
 Case 4 - Throat pain
11. Pediatric cases
 Case 1 - Irritable infant
 Case 2 - Fever
 Case 3 - Vomiting
12. Y Ahora, ¿qué? (And now, what?) Learner self-assessment & Next steps

About the author

Pilar Ortega, MD is a board-certified Emergency Physician and Assistant Professor at the U. Illinois at Chicago, where she directs the Medical Spanish program. She is Vice-President of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion for ACGME (Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education). Dr. Ortega is Co-founder and Chair for the Medical Organization for Latino Advancement (MOLA), a non-profit professional association whose goal is to increase the number of Hispanic and bilingual physicians and to improve the health of Hispanics in the U.S. Dr. Ortega is the director of the recently developed U.S. National Medical Spanish Taskforce-a group of interdisciplinary and inter-institutional leaders who are developing an evidence-based process for Medical Spanish standardization and language concordance research in medical settings. She is internationally recognized for her contributions on the topics of language concordance in health, linguistic competency assessment, and Medical Spanish education.Marco Alemán, MD is a Professor of Medicine at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine ( UNC-SOM) where in 2004 he helped start the Comprehensive Advanced Medical Program of Spanish ( CAMPOS) https://www.med.unc.edu/campos/ a program where he is the principal faculty member and director for over ten years. He trained in curriculum development in medicine at the Primary Care Faculty Development Program at Michigan State. He has created and directed many courses at the UNC-SOM. He has almost 20 years of expertise in creating clinical scenarios and assessment tools for use with Standardized patients (SPs), both in English and in Spanish. He has used SPs to educate and assess medical Spanish in learners for 13 years at UNC-SOM. He has worked with Spanish language educators to improve the teaching of medical Spanish and the evaluation tools used in CAMPOS. In addition, Dr. Alemán has collaborated with Spanish interpreters at UNC Hospitals to create a written and oral exam of medical Spanish proficiency for medical students.

Product details

• Authors: Marco Aleman, Marco Alemán, Pilar Ortega, Ortega Pilar
• Publisher: Elsevier
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 27.05.2021
• EAN: 9780323756488
• ISBN: 978-0-323-75648-8
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 22 mm
• Weight: 700 g
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; Medicine: general issues, MEDICAL / General, MEDICAL / Health Care Delivery, MEDICAL / Education & Training, MEDICAL / Dictionaries & Terminology