Effectiveness of virtual peer-led medical Spanish course enhancing healthcare communication skills.

Autor: Martinez JC; Internal Medicine Department, Wyckoff Heights Medical Center, 374 Stockholm Street, Brooklyn, NY, 11237, USA. juanmarze30@gmail.com., Fernandez AE; St. Georges' University School of Medicine, Grenada, West Indies, Grenada., Bieber C; Albany Medical Center, New York, USA., Orellana P; HCA Florida Kendall Hospital, Miami, USA., Wheeler E; St. Georges' University School of Medicine, Grenada, West Indies, Grenada., Fuentes-Rosales JC; Department of Medicine, Wyckoff Heights Medical Center, Brooklyn, NY, 11237, USA.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: BMC medical education [BMC Med Educ] 2024 Nov 29; Vol. 24 (1), pp. 1393. Date of Electronic Publication: 2024 Nov 29.
DOI: 10.1186/s12909-024-05918-w
Abstrakt: As of July 1st, 2021, the US Hispanic/Latinx community is estimated at 62.6 million, making up 18.9% of the population. Despite federal regulations requiring access to medical interpreters, clinicians often resort to alternative translation methods, increasing the risk of errors. Medical Spanish education lacks standardization in US medical schools, and information on curricula provided by International Medical Schools (IMGs) is limited. We aimed to demonstrate the effectiveness of virtual, peer-led Medical Spanish education for an international medical school cohort. The course consisted of 10 weekly one-hour lectures via Zoom. From 2022 to 2023, three cohorts successfully completed the course. Through realistic clinical scenarios, students practiced and reinforced their clinical knowledge in Spanish. The final exam involved a 20-minute patient encounter on Zoom, with the instructor acting as the patient and the student as the physician. Performance evaluation followed a standardized checklist. Each question was worth 3 points, with a total of 63 potential points. The passing score ratio was set at 2, equivalent to 66.7%, calculated by dividing the score by 21 (the number of questions). Student's self-reported comfort in obtaining a history and physical exam in Spanish, obtained before and after completion of the course post-comfort scores (median, 3), increased significantly compared to pre-course comfort scores (median, 0.5) - increased by an average of 2.5. This Online Spanish Medical Course (OSMC) requires no prior Spanish background or exposure, providing a notable advantage. Most students praised the convenient and effective online format. Despite its short duration, the course yielded significant benefits.
Competing Interests: Declarations. Ethics approval and consent to participate: Not applicable Consent for publication: I declare that the participants in this study have consented to publish the results of their participation also allow to analyze and discuss those results in this manuscript Competing interests: The authors declare no competing interests. Experiment on humans: We didn’t perform any experiments on humans and/or we use human tissue samples.
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Databáze: MEDLINE
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