Medical Spanish

WayOutWestMom
Fri, 18 Mar 2011 10:14:35 +0000

UNM uses this for its med students who need to learn Medical Spanish.

Salud: Medical Spanish Dictionary and Phrase Book by Bonifacio Contreras Book only. Assumes the user has some Spanish knowledge.



A quick, easy-to-use reference book, Salud is for medical students, nurses, doctors, hospital administrators, health care personnel, home health care workers, social workers, and translators in the health care profession. The medical dictionary and alphabetical phrase sections will make it easy to find and cross-reference the correct Spanish-English words and phrases. There are also focused care dialogues ranging from AIDS, anesthesia, and breast exam, to unconscious patient, urinary retention, and visiting hours.





There’s an undergrad medical Spanish class at UNM offered that uses

Medical Spanish Made Ridiculously Simple by Trudy Espinoza-Abrams

This book is basically a pocket dictionary/phrase book and assumes the user already knows some Spanish and just needs vocabulary.



McGraw Hill’s Spanish for Healthcare Providers (2nd ed) seems to be well reviewed on Amazon and elsewhere. Book + Cds + practice tests for CME credit. Assumes reader has little or no Spanish language training/background.