Learn Medical Spanish Online
According to the 2010 Census, 50 million people of Hispanic origin live in the United States. 20 million are estimated to be illegal, but they work, pay taxes, and support social security even though they will likely never receive any benefits from that system.
My family on my Father's side were legal immigrants from eastern Europe around the time of World War I. They were treated badly for many years. I remember the family stories. My Grandfather who labored in the coal mines in the 1920's - 1960's said he would do it all again. He felt it all worked out in this great country. He said of the coal mines which had no safety regs for immigrant miners and where he toiled 12 hours a day, 6 days a week, "It goot. In summer, cool. And in Vinter, warm."
I am always wanting to do things and never do. I always wonder, what can one person do. Well, I have been a health care professional for over 39 years. I learned medical Spanish to help my patients in the ER when we did not have translators. They really appreciated it!
I have decided to find resources including my own for other professionals to use to help them learn medical Spanish. I will give 50% of the proceeds of this lens to charity and reward others who help me with any other income from the lens. I will keep my share of classes I produce elsewhere on the internet.
I hear all the time, they ought to learn the language of where they live. Their children will. But, I can help the many people I know who work two minimum wage jobs 60,70 and 80 hours a week by teaching other professionals to communicate with them more effectively.
My family on my Father's side were legal immigrants from eastern Europe around the time of World War I. They were treated badly for many years. I remember the family stories. My Grandfather who labored in the coal mines in the 1920's - 1960's said he would do it all again. He felt it all worked out in this great country. He said of the coal mines which had no safety regs for immigrant miners and where he toiled 12 hours a day, 6 days a week, "It goot. In summer, cool. And in Vinter, warm."
I am always wanting to do things and never do. I always wonder, what can one person do. Well, I have been a health care professional for over 39 years. I learned medical Spanish to help my patients in the ER when we did not have translators. They really appreciated it!
I have decided to find resources including my own for other professionals to use to help them learn medical Spanish. I will give 50% of the proceeds of this lens to charity and reward others who help me with any other income from the lens. I will keep my share of classes I produce elsewhere on the internet.
I hear all the time, they ought to learn the language of where they live. Their children will. But, I can help the many people I know who work two minimum wage jobs 60,70 and 80 hours a week by teaching other professionals to communicate with them more effectively.
Contents at a Glance
Learn to Speak Medical Spanish
Tune your ears to the Spainish Language
I do not speak Spanish, but I do understand Spanish. How can that be? I learned about 500 Spanish Medical terms and phrases. I simply memorized them and then I began trying to speak to patients. I learned to tell them I understood little and spoke very little Spanish. I learned to ask them to answer slowly and I would ask for just yes and no answers to a series of medical history questions I learned or hand wrote onto cards and showed them to patients. I knew I was making progress when their speech sounded like a stream of words I did not know rather than a stream on unintelligible sounds. When my oldest daughter was only 1 year old, she jabbered all the time. We used to go to some friends' home who were Japanese immigrants. They would cook us Sunday breakfast and the husband/father Hiroshi, loved to feed my daughter breakfast. She would jabber away and Hiroshi would laugh and receive the greatest pleasure from this. One day my daughter talked on for more than 30 seconds. Hiroshi laughed and called to his wife, Ki (Kay), "Look Ki. She is speaking Spanish!" We all laughed. But, Spanish no longer sounds like baby jibberish. I now hear the words and understand many. You can too and it will enrich your life. I want to say how indebted I am to Elizabeth Murray PAC and Laura Phelan PAS and Diana Matias for helping me in this part of my journey. Introduce Yourself in Spanish
Jason teaches and Bruce is his patient in this video.
An easy way to learn Spanish.
Great Books I used or use to communicate in Spanish with my Patients
Get a pocket sized book for your lab coat pocket, they are quickerto use than phone apps
I am more likely to let a child or new Hispanic patient hold and read a book that won't break if dropped in an exchange. I find it good to have a pen and paper ready so they can write down words. My ears are not always correct but I do well when I see it. I took Spanish in school, but really only learned to pronounce words I saw, not to hear and speak the language. Learn to speak, the way children learn. You can use cards, books and written materials as a back-up.
Talking about Spanish for Medical Professionals
What are people Tweeting about?
Basic Positional Commands in Spanish
How to tell your patient whether to sit, stand or lie down.
An easy way to learn Spanish
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Here is a chance to learn "by ear" inexpensively
Get 9 other friends. Get the first hour free and then 10 live hours of instruction, once a week, using a standard text and a native speaker trained in American Medicine. Each of you pays $100, you get the live instruction and the recording of that instruction. There are some other undisclosed bonuses available for you. Let me know you are interested by leaving a comment here.
Spanish is in the news
What does Google report on Medical Spanish?
What is your experience? No rants please.
Don't write "they should learn our language" comments.
The Chinese are deeply invested in our country. The national policies of China, affect your pay in the USA. Do you know how to speak or read Chinese? Tell me how learning Spanish has benefited you or your patients. I would love any anecdotes on learning you care to pass on.
Should Medical Professionals Learn Spanish?
Opinions are strong about US medical professionals responsibility to their Hispanic patients.
Spanish Audio MP3
You can purchase access to these at the link on the bottom.
The first 3 links are audio files you can listen to right here on the page via the Yahoo media player at the bottom of the page.
- Spanish Audio file #1
- IsayUsay.com no longer exists but these files are being hosted on
http://www.thestudentpapath.com
You can find them there under the navigation link - Learn Medical Spanish
Upper Body Front anatomy English and Spanish - Spanish Audio File #2
- The Blog does not exist now, see the first link to find where the files are now hosted.
This recording is Anatomy Upper Body Back - Spanish Audio #3
- Pain assessment and Bites and Stings Vocabulary
Upper Extremity Anatomy in Spanish
An easy way to learn Spanish online
Lenses with Spanish as a feature.
Music and videos plus text are good ways to practice Spanish language skills.
Information on the web to help you Learn Medical Spanish
Learning Medical Spanish is fun and a valuable thing to do.
- Medical Students Should Study Patients' Cultural Diversity
- Consider medically-oriented language courses: Because patients are increasingly either non-English speaking or only comfortable communicating in their primary language, it could be helpful to consider taking medical Spanish, or other languages, ...
- Making Spanish Work
- These companies offer a wide range of job-specific training (Spanish for Law Enforcement, Spanish for Tax Preparers, and Medical Spanish). However popular, these courses can be quite costly. Not only that, many offer instruction based on the drill ...
- W&L Announces Final Johnson Opportunity Grant Recipients
- She will attend tropical disease training and seminars in pharmacology and house clinic-community triage, medical Spanish seminars and basic training for anamnesis. Park has taken Spanish classes at W&L and has participated in English for Speakers of ...
- • Schools celebrate top students
- She plans to attend Butler University for pharmacy with a medical Spanish emphasis. Her overall GPA is 3.96. Hancock, the daughter of Stephen and Beverly Hancock, is this year's salutatorian with a GPA of 3.93. She plans to attend Ivy Tech and later ...
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This is the book I used to learn Medical Spanish
I still have my well worn copy
Medical Spanish: An Instant Translator, 1e
Amazon Price: $77.84 (as of 06/02/2012)
I found this very useful. It fit into a lab coat pocket. The chapters each relate to a different area of concern, OB, GYN, Orthopedic injuries, pediatric illness. It takes you through a basic history and has phrases for explanations like "you need an injection" "you need a lab test or xray". The Spanish is on the right page, English on the left. In red below the Spanish is a phonetic pronunciation guide. I read these at first, then memorized them. Finally I began to hear the Spanish words patients were saying. I highly recommend this book. If you have a different preference, leave a comment about it.
