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Medical Spanish For Health Professionals via Internet

Course Description: This course provides live lessons via Phone Internet with native Spanish Speakers.

Students use a computer connection plus a telephone line to attend the audio conferences. The computer accesses the lessons on the Internet, as well as the teacher, who shares the lessons with all of the students via Internet. Students interact with the teacher by voice through the conference phone bridge in real time. As a result, students hear and practice authentic everyday speech with their teachers.

The course is introductory, and it is meant to allow English-speaking healthcare professionals learn the basics of Medical Spanish for better communication with non-English speaking, Hispanic patients.

The didactic material of course I includes introductory words and phrases, greeting patients, parts of the body, regional and cultural differences, colloquial terms and expressions, food, colors, helpful phrases, numbers,time, and clothing.

The didactic material of course II includes main patient complaints, taking vital signs, verb conjugation, giving instructions to patients, vocabulary related to patient symptoms, and the doctor/patient interview.

Minimum computer requirements include the following: Windows computer (Pentium 1 GHz processor is preferred); Microsoft Internet Explorer web browser version 5.0 or higher; an Internet connection plus another phone line to hear the audio; Java-enabled browser; and permission to use cookies.

Neither Apple Mac nor Netscape is supported.

Minimum # of students: 2
Maximum # of students: 4.

CME / CEU Credits: No

Price: $127 for a four week course (8 hours); includes 2 sessions of 1 hour each per week.

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