ABSTRACT
In this chapter, students of Beginning Medical Spanish will acquire the necessary oral communicative skills to help patients find where they have to be for an appointment and ease the stress involved with navigating location in a new clinical setting. They will learn how to appropriately elicit information about the location (floor and buildings) of places in a medical setting using (estar) and the information words dónde and en qué in questions. By using adverbial expressions such as al fondo de, al lado de, etc., students will be able to give and elicit directions to different locations. Students will also learn how to ask and provide patients with addresses. At the end of the chapter, medical professionals and staff will be able to describe and elicit descriptions of a patient’s general condition and physical symptoms using the verbs (estar) and (tener) and the vocabulary of the parts and organs of the body. In addition, they will develop cultural awareness of the notion of modestia with regards to the body of a patient. By continuing their development of an other-oriented approach based on cultural humility, they can respond to individual patients practices and preferences with regards to modestia.
