On-Demand Webinars
Participants can choose to take one course, multiple courses or all of them. These courses try to build knowledge progressively as participants advance through each webinar. Courses follow a clinical encounter format to provide participants with a clear sequence of information.
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Course 1: Basic audiology vocabulary, as well as test instructions for a comprehensive hearing assessment test battery in Spanish.
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Course 2: Eliciting the chief complaint and completing past and present case history in Spanish.
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Course 3: Sharing test results and discussing recommendations in Spanish.
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Course 4: Discussing hearing technology, including hearing aids and cochlear implants in Spanish.
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Course 5: Knowing your language limitations: Providing safe and effective clinical care.
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Course Series: Seven courses, including all the 5 courses listed above, plus two extra webinars on pediatrics, tinnitus, and cognition. CEUs are offered for this course series.
Support Learning Materials
We use two books and both can be purchased online.
1) Audiology Services in Diverse Communities: A Tool to Help Clinicians Working With Spanish-Speaking Patients and Families. This ebook is included for FREE with our 7-course series. 2) Spanish and the Medical Interview: A Textbook for Clinically Relevant Medical Spanish 2nd Edition
Ready to register?
We are excited you are here! Thank you for your interest in the Medical Spanish for Audiologists On-Demand Courses. Before you register please:
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Take the language proficiency survey to help you gauge your Spanish language skills.
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Read the disclaimers
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There are no refunds for on-demand courses.
Language Proficiency Scale
Most of the courses available on our On-Demand format are most beneficial to participants with intermediate or advanced Spanish language skills. Our courses do not teach Spanish, instead they concentrate on using Medical Spanish in audiology spaces. Participants can gauge their language level skills by taking this language proficiency scale. Participants should score FAIR or higher.
Course Series On-Demand
In partnership with AB, this course series offers seven courses and 0.7 CEUs. Courses follow a clinical encounter format staring with basic greeting in introductions, conducting clinical history, instructing patients for tests, reviewing results and recommendations, discussing hearing technology and more. There are courses concentrating specifically on pediatrics, tinnitus, mental health, and cognition.
Disclaimers
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The On-Demand courses are intended to help participants expand their Spanish language skills related to audiology services.
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Participants will be assessed on the learning objectives at the end of each course through an assignment or through a quiz.
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The Medical Spanish for Audiologists courses presented on "On-Demand" format do not test, assess or certify the participants’ proficiency in Spanish.
Acknowledgements
We would like to thank the National Association of Medical Spanish for its commitment to advancing medical Spanish training in the U.S., especially to the Medical Spanish Task Force who compiled the reference list below: Ortega P, Shin T, Hardin K, Alemán M, Diamond L, Pérez N, Pérez-Cordón C, Zapién-Hidalgo A, Martínez G.
