医疗西班牙语生命体征教育模块为医疗保健学生
David Essex1, Trevor Murphy1, Natalia Penaloza1
1John Sealy School of Medicine, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, USA.
The clinical teacher
|February 18, 2025
概括
医疗保健学生在7小时的混合模块后提高了西班牙语的生命体征知识和信心. 之前在西班牙的接触进一步提高了对服用患者生命体征的信心.
科学领域:
- 医学教育 医学教育
- 医疗保健通讯 医疗保健通讯
- 语言培训语言培训
背景情况:
- 越来越多的西班牙语患者群体需要改善临床医生的沟通.
- 缺乏西班牙语医疗保健专业人员造成了沟通障碍.
- 需要有针对性的培训,为医疗保健学生提供必要的西班牙语语言技能,以照顾患者.
研究的目的:
- 评估一种混合教育模块的有效性,该模块旨在向医疗保健学生教授基本的西班牙语,以获取生命体征.
- 评估该模块对学生知识获取和在西班牙语中执行这项临床任务的自我感知信心的影响.
主要方法:
- 实施了7小时的混合教育模块,包括面对面的课程和作业.
- 学生参与学习语法,词汇和文化细微差别,随后进行基于团队的演讲练习.
- 模块前后的调查评估了知识,理解,文化理解和信心,使用5分利克特级别.
主要成果:
- 在所有被评估的领域观察到统计学上显著的改善,包括语法,词汇,理解和文化理解.
- 学生在西班牙语学习生命体征方面的自信在模块后显著增加.
- 之前接触西班牙语与报告生命体征的信心增加有关.
结论:
- 开发的模块有效地提高医疗学生学习和练习医疗西班牙语的生命体征的能力.
- 教育机构应该考虑结合这些模块来提高学员的西班牙语水平.
- 解决语言差距对于为日益增长的西班牙语患者群体提供公平有效的护理至关重要.
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