Medical Spanish Lessons with Audio

Check out Practicing Spanish for medical professionals. The author is a Spanish teacher living in the U.S. who has also trained as a medical interpretor.

The audio has dialogues between patients and health care providers as well as pronunciation guides, phrases, anatomy, and examples of different accents from a variety of Spanish speaking countries. If you learn best by listening, this site will be very helpful.

Note: Scroll down after choosing a link on this site--for some reason there is a lot of blank space before the info appears.

rn.org for CME

http://www.rn.org/CourseCatalog.php

rn.org is an accredited provider of nursing continuing education, and provides unlimited CEU's for a $20.00 annual membership fee. In addition, they feature a free course periodically.

Free CME series on Complementary Medicine.

http://nccam.nih.gov/videolectures/

This online video lecture series is from the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine, a project of the National Institutes of Health. There are 8 courses, with a total of 9.6 ANCC aproved credit available. Courses require one-time registration.

Available Courses
Overview of CAM
Herbs and Other Dietary Supplements
Mind-Body Medicine
Acupuncture: An Evidence-Based Assessment
Manipulative and Body-Based Therapies: Chiropractic and Spinal Manipulation
CAM and Aging
Integrative Medicine
Health and Spirituality

Free CME from Medscape Nurses

http://www.medscape.com/nurses

After a 1-time registration process, you can access a wide array of free CE, reviewed by an advisory board of nurses.

Spanish Patient Handouts

Check out these Spanish Patient Education handouts from Advance for Nurses.

American Family Physician has a list of handouts in both English and Spanish on many common conditions. You can toggle back between English and Spanish.

Also, here is a dictionary of medical spanish.