Medical Spanish and Spanish Grammar Review

We are kicking off a new series on International Health, covering common conditions encountered in rural Central America. This series is created in collaboration with one of our listeners, Dr. Richard Anstett. He regularly travels down to Central America to serve the under-served. This series will include pictures provided from Dr. Anstett's trips.

First Podcast: Scabies - Dialogue

After the first podcast, we published a series focusing on the grammar and vocabulary from the dialogue:

Breaking it down - Part 1 (Description of the rash)

Breaking it down - Part 2 (Interviewing a child, using the casual tú)

Breaking it down - Part 3 (Explaining treatment to the mother)

Ascariasis: A very common nematode infection worldwide.

Dialogue - Intestinal Worms (The clinical encounter in Spanish, with a little pathophysiology at the end of the podcast.)

Welcome to the Reproductive Health Forum. Check out the following podcasts covering Reproductive Health Issues:

Reproductive Health: Dialog

Reproductive Health: Vocab

Reproductive Health History

Labor & Delivery - Yes or No Questions

Dialogue - Gonorrhea

STD Symptoms in Men

Taking a Sexual History

STDs - Patient Education

This is the place to leave your comments, questions and suggestions regarding these podcasts.

At your request, we are going more basic and kicking off this Basic Phrase and Vocabulary podcast series with...

ER Triage Phrases

Body Parts Vocabulary

Coming soon...

Phrases: History of Present Illness; Vocabulary: Symptoms

You must consider the directional context when using the verbs: TRAER/LLEVAR, VENIR/IR.

If you are like me, you've messed up the usage of these verbs many times. Here are two podcasts which will hopefully clear things up.

Basic rules of thumb:

1. If something is being carried to your current location, use TRAER. If you are describing the action of arriving or coming to your current location, use VENIR.

2. If something is being carried from your current location to another location use LLEVAR. If you are describing the action of leaving your current location to go to another location, use IR.

It all depends on the perspective of the speaker. To practice these verbs, check out the podcasts below.

Traer vs Llevar

Venir vs Ir

Comments or questions regarding these podcasts may be posted below. Saludos!

Read along and listen to the podcasts below.

Reproductive Health Vocabulary

Reproductive Health Dialogue

Reproductive Health History

Labor & Delivery

Social History

Then test yourself with our Reproductive Health Quiz.

If you are a nurse, you can now earn 2 hours of Continuing Nursing Education Credit, through the Culture Advantage Learning Portal.**

1. Click on this REGISTRATION LINK to register.*

2. Fill in the requested information and hit SAVE.

3. Click on the title Medical Spanish: Reproductive Health.

4. Click on the Payment tab at the top of the page. It costs $10 to receive 2 hours of credit.

5. Then Return to Merchant after payment to take the exam and receive your certificate.

Check out our new series on medical and surgical equipment! This series was started in response to listeners' requests.

Medical Equipment Part 1 - Passive Constructions

Medical Equipment Part 2 - Vocabulary

Medical Equipment Part 3 - Passive Se

Surgical Vocab - Facial Reconstructive Surgery

If you have something to share (requests, questions, comments) regarding this series, this is the place to post it.

If you have an idea for a future Medical Spanish Podcast episode. Go to the Medical Spanish Podcast forum and leave it under Ideas for future Medical Spanish Podcast episodes.

I just published my first dialogue which focuses on a medical topic in the news. Patients are always asking questions about things they read and hear in the news. Y a veces.... it's difficult to answer them in English, let alone in Spanish! So after reading the paper this morning I sat down and made up a dialogue,  and with the help of Catalina Rodriguez, my tutor from NuLengua, I was able to get it ready by tonight. I hope you enjoy. And if you are a beginner, don't worry we will cover the translation in future episodes.

Swine Flu - Medicine in the News

Grammar from Swine Flu Dialogue

Let me know what you think of Medicine in the News. Would you like me to continue this series? Leave your comments.

Finally the wheels are turning again in the Spanish Grammar series. I just posted the end of a 3 part series on stem-changing verbs in the present subjunctive:

Stem Changing Verbs (e - i) in the Subjunctive 

In response to listeners' requests in the forum, next we will practice the Imperfect Subjunctive, Reflexive Verbs, Placement of Adjectives, and the Impersonal "Se." These last two will be particularly useful for medical speech. You can leave YOUR requests/ideas here:

Ideas for future Spanish Grammar Podcasts

¡Hasta pronto!

I'm going to start creating a list of words with tricky gender assignment. Please feel free to join me! 

Below is a list of the podcasts published so far regarding musculoskeletal problems. 

Gout - Dialogue

Gout - Exam

Gout - Joint Aspiration

Workers Compensation - Carpel Tunnel Syndrome & Carpal Tunnel Syndrome - Vocab and Phrase Review

Back Pain - Dialogue 

This is the place to leave questions and comments regarding these podcasts.

I have just published the first in a series on Social History. These will be more basic podcasts.

Social History 1: covers nationality, marital status and questions about family.

Social History 2: covers questions about tobacco use, drinking and drugs.

Social History 3: covers difficult questions regarding domestic abuse. 

Please leave your ideas for the future Social History Podcasts here. Emily67 has requested information regarding religion and blood transfusions. What are your suggestions? Leave them in the form of sample questions or just ideas. Or maybe you have a question regarding this podcast. This is the place to ask.

This will be a series of podcasts covering Medical Procedures.

Check out the following podcasts in this series:

Blood Test

Urine Sample

ECG, Sputum Sample, Mantoux

Radiology

Gout - Joint Aspiration

If you have ideas, questions or comments regarding this series on Medical Procedures, share them here. I will do my best to respond within 24 hours.

Check out the following podcasts:

Workers Compensation An employee presents to the clinic after an accident at work.

Carpal Tunnel Syndrome A dialogue between a patient with CTS and her doctor. 

Vocab and Phrase Review Review the vocabulary and key phrases from the dialogue on CTS. 

Below leave comments, questions and suggestions for future podcasts covering Workers Compensation. 

So far we have published 3 Reproductive Health Podcasts:
 
Reproductive Health: Dialog
 
Reproductive Health: Vocab
 
Reproductive Health History
 
This is the place to leave your comments, questions and suggestions regarding these podcasts.

In this series, we cover common questions while obtaining a General Medical History.

Medical History Podcasts published thus far:

Heart History

Medical History: Lungs to Bones

Reproductive Health History

If you have any questions or ideas for future podcasts in this series covering the General Medical History, you can leave them here, and I will incorporate them into the upcoming episodes.

....tengo laringitis. There's a nasty cold going through Minnesota, and it's caught me. My voice is gone. But as soon as it's back I'll be recording the next medical AND grammar podcast. Gracias por su paciencia.

Saludos,

Molly

In this quiz we practice the tricky grammar and new vocabulary from the episode Spanish for the Front Desk.  You will find more quizzes like this one under Quiz Time in the menu items at the top of this page.

There's a chill in the air... Back to school!

It has been a long time since I've published a Grammar Review Podcast, and I just noticed there are many new subscribers! So I'm working on some new material. I would like to practice more of the subjunctive and irregular verbs. But what would you like hear? Have a suggestion? Leave it in the "Ideas for future Spanish Grammar Podcasts Episodes" forum.

As for the Medical Spanish Podcast, we are currently going through a General Medical History and I just kicked off a series on Spanish for the Front Desk. You can leave your comments and questions regarding these podcasts in their respective forums: "Spanish for the Front Desk" forum, and "General Medical History Podcasts" forum. These podcasts are made for YOU! Please leave me your suggestions and I will incorporate them into the upcoming episodes.

In this quiz we review the grammar and vocabulary from the podcast "Heart History."

Hi I am Maria Rebeca from the podcast, and if you have any questions about general Spanish or some cultural questions just ask me here.

...so I haven't been able to publish new podcast episodes as freqently as before. But María and I are continuing to record new material. I should have a new Medical Spanish Podcast Episode published within a week. The Grammar Podcast is on hold for a short time, but will be back. Upcoming topics:

1. The General Medical History

2. Medical Spanish for Receptionists

3. Labor & Delivery

4. Workers Compensation Visits

5. Any suggestions for Pediatric topics?

And thank you for voting in the polls!

This episode was done in response to listeners' requests. What other titles would you like to know? We can start a list here.

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This quiz is based on material covered in the podcast. Hope you find it a good review.

This podcast was María's idea. She thought of it when we were preparing a Cultural Competency talk for the Concordia Language Village Seminar: Spanish for Health Care Professionals. (For more info on this wonderful course, check out the link.) And just today someone requested: "Medical Spanish for the Front Office."

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