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title says it all. Taking the advice offered by some here and learning medical spanish before i head off to school. Any help would be appreciated.
Anyone recommend a good medical spanish book to teach myself from?
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Medical Spanish by Gail Bongiovanni was helpful for me when I went to Ecuador, but I had a little spanish beforehand. I also used spanish CDs/Cassette lessons from my local library, and I would play them in my car or on my MP3 player.
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Try looking for computer software -I have a CDROM (it's old) called "Guia medica para la familia" and it has search features (based on symptoms, illness, med) and descriptions of illnesses, medications (think a mini web-md).
Also, a lot of the state health depts do their information sheets (on the web) in both English and Spanish, so you can print topics as necessary -I like NY.
If you're in a state w/ a lot of hispanics, or near the border, you might find some useful books in the bookstore. If in MX or other Spanish speaking countries, shop a bookstore near a university, they'll have handy charts for their students and they're affordable.
Lippencotts has a medical eng/span dictionary w/ added stuff like anatomy charts, common phrases.
If you don't speak ANY Spanish: take a course over the summer that will help you with pronunciation, or go to your school's Spanish dept and see if they have free conversation tables, or similar get-togethers, to work on your accent. Knowing the vocab is useless if you can't speak. And don't worry about listening comprehension if you're just starting, when someone is worried/sick/drunk you're gonna have a hard time understanding them, you'll have to go to a "si/no" and pointing-type question format. Want to improve listening skills? Go work somewhere with a lot of hispanohablantes over the summer (not vacation or school, work).
Also, a lot of the state health depts do their information sheets (on the web) in both English and Spanish, so you can print topics as necessary -I like NY.
If you're in a state w/ a lot of hispanics, or near the border, you might find some useful books in the bookstore. If in MX or other Spanish speaking countries, shop a bookstore near a university, they'll have handy charts for their students and they're affordable.
Lippencotts has a medical eng/span dictionary w/ added stuff like anatomy charts, common phrases.
If you don't speak ANY Spanish: take a course over the summer that will help you with pronunciation, or go to your school's Spanish dept and see if they have free conversation tables, or similar get-togethers, to work on your accent. Knowing the vocab is useless if you can't speak. And don't worry about listening comprehension if you're just starting, when someone is worried/sick/drunk you're gonna have a hard time understanding them, you'll have to go to a "si/no" and pointing-type question format. Want to improve listening skills? Go work somewhere with a lot of hispanohablantes over the summer (not vacation or school, work).
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We have an awesome language teacher hired by the med ed office here to teach us medical spanish. She swears that "Spanish and the Medical Interview" by Pilar Ortega, MD is the best book she's ever seen. Its short, sweet and to the point.
If you've never had any spanish at all before I liked Spanish for Health Care Professionals - the publisher is Harvey.
If you're an audio learner the McGraw-Hill's Spanish for Healthcare Providers is pretty good. The audios are kind of annoying, but they give you what you need and give dialogs.
If you've never had any spanish at all before I liked Spanish for Health Care Professionals - the publisher is Harvey.
If you're an audio learner the McGraw-Hill's Spanish for Healthcare Providers is pretty good. The audios are kind of annoying, but they give you what you need and give dialogs.
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