Abstract
This study is a pedagogical dialogue based on my experience teaching Spanish for Healthcare at two institutions. After exploring laws concerning language at healthcare institutions, the article analyzes the role of cultural components in a college-level Medical Spanish course and presents some activities and assignments. Cultural components such as literature, film, art, recipes, etc. can serve as humanizing elements in a course that could be dry with only vocabulary-based content. In this type of course, opportunities for interaction with patients will be likely absent; cultural elements can contribute some of the human experience without a clinical component. Integrating cultural content into a healthcare-based language course will promote intercultural competence and a more humanistic approach to using Spanish for Healthcare.
Recommended Citation
Fellie, Maria C.
(2019)
"Humanizing Intercultural Healthcare: On Integrating Cultural Components into a Medical Spanish Course,"
Survive & Thrive: A Journal for Medical Humanities and Narrative as Medicine: Vol. 4:
Iss.
1, Article 7.
Available at:
https://repository.stcloudstate.edu/survive_thrive/vol4/iss1/7