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Conversational Medical Spanish for Emergency Health Care Providers (EMS 165)

3 Units
Lecture: 3 hours
This course is intended to develop fundamental conversational skills primarily for Emergency Health Care Providers and other health care providers. This course is not intended to replace or substitute for a course of study in a foreign language and is specific in its design and content. Basic dialogue and pattern practice will be the instructional method, emphasizing a medical question and answer format. The course will cover basic non-technical vocabulary, some specialized functional terms, idiomatic expressions and situational phrases used in medical Spanish. Also included will be cultural characteristics of the local population of Spanish speakers. May be repeated one time.

Fall 2010 EMS 165 Syllabus Instructor:  Watterson, S