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Medical Spanish certification requires you to meet certain proficiency standards for working in Spanish within the healthcare context. Each standard for bilingual proficiency has the following components:
Role
The “role” goes beyond the speaker’s professional role in healthcare (physician, nurse, etc) and defines the healthcare workers communicative role while conversing with patients.
Communicative Pathway
We communicate in a variety of modes and settings such as: 1:1 conversation with another individual, presenting information to groups, listening and reading for understanding, etc.
Cognitive Task
These are the mental tasks required to facilitate communication between two people.
Competency Level
When language is applied to a professional setting, the linguistic skill level of the person using the language should naturally match that of the professional who uses that language natively in that profession.
Common Ground’s proficiency standards for certification are outlined below. Each standard includes a Role, Cognitive Task, Communicative Pathway, & Competency Level:
Standard 1: Patient and Care Professional Interaction
Role: Health care professional as Facilitator
Cognitive Task: Meaning Construction
Pathway: Direct Person to Person
Competency Level: At or Above Professional
Standard 2: Skilled Presentational Ability
Role: Health care professional as Resource Person
Cognitive Task: Knowledge Sharing
Pathway: Oral Presentational
Competency Level: At or Above Professional
Standard 3: Critical Listening
Role: Health care professional as Inquirer
Cognitive Task: Information Analysis & Synthesis
Pathway: Listening for understanding
Competency Level: At or Above Professional
Standard 4: Critical Reading
Role: Health care professional as Inquirer
Cognitive Task: Information Analysis & Synthesis
Communicative Pathway: Reading for understanding
Competency Level: At or Above Professional
Standard 5: Cultural Navigation
Role: Health care professional as Mediator
Cognitive Task: Social Leadership
Communicative Pathway: All
Competency Level: At or Above Professional
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