Spanish and the Medical Interview

Pilar Ortega, MD is a board-certified Emergency Physician and Assistant Professor at the U. Illinois at Chicago, where she directs the Medical Spanish program. She is Vice-President of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion for ACGME (Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education). Dr. Ortega is Co-founder and Chair for the Medical Organization for Latino Advancement (MOLA), a non-profit professional association whose goal is to increase the number of Hispanic and bilingual physicians and to improve the health of Hispanics in the U.S. Dr. Ortega is the director of the recently developed U.S. National Medical Spanish Taskforce-a group of interdisciplinary and inter-institutional leaders who are developing an evidence-based process for Medical Spanish standardization and language concordance research in medical settings. She is internationally recognized for her contributions on the topics of language concordance in health, linguistic competency assessment, and Medical Spanish education.

• 1. Basics of Conversational Spanish2. Setting the Stage for the Clinical Encounter3. History of the Present Illness4. Past Medical History and Review of Systems5. Medications and Drug Effects6. Family History7. Social and Sexual History8. Mental Health and Cognition9. Preventive Health and Nutrition10. Pediatrics11. Physical Examination12. Procedures and Informed Consent13. Impression and Plan14. Knowing your Limitations: When and How to Use a Medical Interpreter