Spanish for Health Professions

Offered as an Anselmian Career Edge (ACE) Certificate*

The Spanish for Health Professions certificate provides students with practical language and cultural skills for working with Spanish-speaking patients and communities in healthcare and allied health fields. It is open to students with no prior background in Spanish.

You’ll learn to speak, listen, read, and write in Spanish while developing cultural awareness and sensitivity to issues such as access to care, communication styles, and patient dignity. Interactive practice and real-world applications will help you speak Spanish with confidence in and beyond healthcare spaces. This area of study will prepare you for careers in a range of settings from long-term care clinics and hospitals to schools and patients’ homes.

* Anselmian Career Edge (ACE) Certificates offer Saint Anselm students practical career knowledge, skills, and preparation through relevant courses and engaging partnerships with local, regional, national, and international companies and organizations.

Spanish for Health Professions certificate partner is:

modern Languages and literatures DEPARTMENT

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The certificate has a wide reach of practical applications because we delve into the medical lexicon, and the realities of Hispanic/Latinos in the US today. Partnering with Amoskeag Health provides us with a community perspective so students will learn about the populations that they might serve and the difficulties those populations may have in accessing healthcare.

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Care of the Hispanic Adult

In this course, you’ll develop a specialized working vocabulary to care for patients with chronic illness. You’ll gain an understanding of how geriatrics are viewed in Hispanic and Latino communities and build your knowledge on Hispanic traditions for long-term care, gaining, and death.

Topics You'll Study

Throughout your coursework, you’ll build a Spanish vocabulary that allows you to communicate with Spanish-speaking patients in a variety of healthcare settings. Sequential courses build from basic or intermediate communication to more advanced, professional-level interaction.

You’ll study a variety of topics, including:

Hispanic traditions of aging, long-term care, and death
How to perform health assessments on Spanish-speaking patients to optimize health outcomes and to enhance patient satisfaction
Patient-centered care, diversity and cultural sensitivity, patient beliefs and traditions, therapeutic communication, clinical practices, healthcare systems, and delivery of care
Specialized Spanish vocabulary for working in healthcare spaces with patients of all ages

Anselmian Career Edge Certificate

Anselmian Career Edge (ACE) Certificates are employment-oriented academic programs strengthened by partnerships with leading employers and supported by a strong alumni network. Students completing an ACE Certificate complete three courses while also gaining practical, career-focused knowledge and skills from engaging with partner-employers. The courses, experiential learning, and collaboration with partners provides certificates that complement the College’s liberal arts curriculum and prepare students for post-graduation success.

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ACE Certificate Partner: Amoskeag Health

A mission-driven, federally qualified non-profit health center, Amoskeag Health provides comprehensive physical and mental healthcare services to the Manchester community. Partnering with the College, Amoskeag Health provides students with opportunities for learning and engagement in- and out-of-the-classroom. Students studying Spanish, specifically related to healthcare and health professions, will gain insight into serving diverse patients and communities in a clinical setting.

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