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Overcoming the language barrier: a novel curriculum for training medical students as volunteer medical interpreters

BACKGROUND: Over 41 million people in the United States speak Spanish as their primary language, of which 16 million have limited English proficiency (LEP). It is well-established that language barriers contribute to health disparities and that the use of ad-hoc interpretation by untrained family me...

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Autores principales: Carlson, Erik S, Barriga, Tatiana M, Lobo, Dale, Garcia, Guadalupe, Sanchez, Dayana, Fitz, Matthew
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8751325/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35012526
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12909-021-03081-0