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Published in: Journal of General Internal Medicine 6/2014

01-06-2014 | Letter to Editor

Optimizing the Involvement of Language Interpreters During the Clinical Encounter

Authors: Sarah Gottfried, MD, Jaideep S. Talwalkar, MD

Published in: Journal of General Internal Medicine | Issue 6/2014

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To the Editors:—Johnson et al. write in their Comment1 about creating a continuum of language interpreter participation in physician–patient interactions. We fully support this notion. Our novel, self-guided, medical Spanish curriculum,2 which empowers residents to flexibly improve their medical Spanish skills, utilizes medical interpreters as teachers both in the classroom and in the exam room, fostering a relationship that enables the team to function along this continuum. …
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Johnson RA, Block LF, Danis M. Optimizing the involvement of language interpreters during the clinical encounter. J Gen Intern Med. 2014;29(2):276–8.PubMedCrossRef
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Chatterjee A, Talwalkar JS. An innovative medical Spanish curriculum for resident doctors. Med Educ. 2012;46:521–2.PubMedCrossRef
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Title
Optimizing the Involvement of Language Interpreters During the Clinical Encounter
Authors
Sarah Gottfried, MD
Jaideep S. Talwalkar, MD
Publication date
01-06-2014
Publisher
Springer US
Published in
Journal of General Internal Medicine / Issue 6/2014
Print ISSN: 0884-8734
Electronic ISSN: 1525-1497
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11606-014-2858-1

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