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NAMS MedCast's PodcastEpisode 18 - Language Justice in Maternal Care: Breaking Barriers for Spanish-Speaking Mothers with Dr. Richard Bryce and Dr. Angelina PalaciosSend us a text Access to high-quality care during pregnancy and childbirth shouldn’t depend on the language you speak. Yet for many Spanish-speaking mothers in the U.S., communication barriers can mean delayed care, missed diagnoses, or feeling unseen in critical moments. Understanding and addressing these inequities requires more than translation; it demands a system built on language justice.In this episode, host Ana Suarez speaks with Dr. Richard Bryce, Program Director for the Henry Ford Family Medicine Residency and Chief Medical Officer at the Community Health and Soc...
2025-12-1930 minNAMS MedCast's PodcastEpisode 17 - Bridging Health and Community with the National Kidney Foundation of MichiganSend us a textMedical care doesn’t begin or end in academic centers, clinics, or hospitals. Public health organizations—like the National Kidney Foundation of Michigan (NKFM)—play a critical role in building networks of preventive care. These organizations serve as the connective tissue between healthcare institutions and local communities, helping to translate medical knowledge into accessible, actionable practices.In this episode, we speak with Barbara Garcia-Sauceda, a Program Specialist at NKFM, about the importance of culturally and linguistically competent care in chronic disease education. Our conversation explores the structural barriers faced by Spa...
2025-07-1836 minNAMS MedCast's PodcastEpisode 16 - Boots on the Ground: Medical Spanish and the Mobile Migrant Health Team with Dayane PadillaSend us a textVolunteer organizations like the Mobile Migrant Health Team (MMHT), based out of Chicago, IL, have been on the frontlines of taking care of the recent surge of largely Spanish-speaking migrants to the United States. Working in police precincts, temporary shelters, and free clinics, the work of these volunteer organizations underscores both challenges and urgency of clear and high-quality communication between patients and providers.In this episode, we sit down with Dayane Padilla, a volunteer with the MMHT and current University of Illinois Chicago graduate student. We had an opportunity...
2025-04-1025 minNAMS MedCast's PodcastEpisode 15 - ¡Mamá, I MADE it!: Learning about medical spanish podcasts with Dr. Reniell IñiguezSend us a textIn this episode of the NAMS Medcast, we sit down with Dr. Reniell Iñiguez, a second-year internal medicine resident at Northwestern and host of the Más Allá del Estetoscopio, a medical Spanish podcast. Dr. Iñiguez shares his journey from community college to residency, the personal experiences that shaped his passion for medical Spanish, and the challenges of launching a podcast while navigating intern year.We discuss the importance of accurate medical communication, the dangers of false fluency, and how his immersive experiences—like his rotation in Mexico—deepened his flue...
2025-02-0724 minNAMS MedCast's PodcastEpisode 14 - AI’s newest frontier: Medical Spanish: A conversation with Dr. Alyssia Miller De RuttéSend us a textWhile the teaching of language concordant care is a fundamental area of work in Medical Spanish, novel approaches to Education have to be considered as the field progresses further into the 21st century. This can even include novel areas of work like Virtual Reality (VR) and Artificial Intelligence (AI). In this episode, we sit down with Dr. Alyssia Miller De Rutté, Director of Languages for Specific Purposes as well as Assistant Professor of Spanish for Specific Purposes at Colorado State University. She also currently serves as the Vice President of the Nat...
2024-11-2232 minNAMS MedCast's PodcastEpisode 13 - Mara Youdelman of NHeLP on Language Access and Health EquitySend us a textThis episode of the NAMS MedCast features a conversation with Mara Youdelman of the National Health Law Program (NHeLP). Mara is the Managing Director of Federal Advocacy at NHeLP and a national expert in language access, civil rights protections, and healthcare advocacy, with over two decades of experience. Mara's extensive work includes co-chairing The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights' Health Care Task Force and serving as a founding commissioner for the Certification Commission for Healthcare Interpreters (CCHI). She will also be the keynote speaker at the MOLA-NAMS conference in late October 2024!
2024-10-1828 minNAMS MedCast's PodcastEpisode 12 - NAMS @ LMSA Midwest 2024Send us a textThe NAMS Student Coalition has worked to create a number of tools and workshops to help students at different stages of their medical education advocate for the development of medical language courses which foster and implement the importance of linguistic and cultural concordant care. One of these avenues is through the presentation of a dynamic workshop entitled ‘Empowering Students and Physicians to Become Medical Spanish Ambassadors,’ which the NAMS team has presented at a number of medical conferences such as the Latino Medical Student Association (LMSA) National Conference and the Medical Organ...
2024-09-1941 minNAMS MedCast's PodcastEpisode 11 - The Spanish Prescription: Talking Medical Spanish in PharmD training with Dr. Robert MuellerSend us a textThe responsibility to provide language concordant care does not fall solely on the shoulders of physicians, as modern healthcare entails the collaboration of many different medical disciplines and professionals with different areas of expertise and training. Pharmacists play a key role in patient communication, medication management, and in maintaining trust, so it is very important that they are also trained to provide their care and specialty in an appropriate manner. In this episode, we chat with Dr. Robert Mueller, PharmD, BCPS, an Associate Professor of Pharmacy Practice Concordia University Wisconsin School o...
2024-08-2243 minNAMS MedCast's PodcastEpisode 10 - Admissions, DEI and Español Médico: A Conversation with Dr. Sandra Quezada (University of Maryland School of Medicine)Send us a textNAMS allows its members to learn about the many ways in which Medical Spanish can be incorporated in the different facets of Medical Education, and our community also provides insight into the needs of this language in Medical School Admissions and DEI initiatives. In this episode, we sit down with Dr. Sandra Quezada, the Associate Dean of Admissions and Associate Dean for Faculty, Diversity, and Inclusion at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, as well as a Professor of Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology. During our conversation, she s...
2024-03-1942 minNAMS MedCast's PodcastEpisode 9 - Rondo alla Emergencia: EM Grand Rounds en Español with Dr. James MoakSend us a textMedical Spanish Education Initiatives come in all shapes and sizes, and offer a unique avenue for networking and collaboration both across and outside the United States. In our first episode of 2024, we chat with Dr. James Moak, an Associate Professor in the Departmet of Emergency Medicine at the University of Virginia, and the founder of the 'Spanish Grand Rounds' Seminar Series, a monthly zoom-based Grand Rounds initiative hosted by the University of Virginia Department of Emergency Medicine.We learn about the structure and goal of these collaborative English-Spanish zoom se...
2024-02-1449 minNAMS MedCast's PodcastEpisode 8 - Español Médico at Harvard Medical SchoolSend us a textThrough NAMS, we’re very lucky that we have a chance to connect with and learn from many of the programs and initiatives from across the United States that already work to teach students and professionals alike about the importance of language concordant care. For our last episode of 2023, we interview Dr. Rose Molina and Dr. Silvana Bonilla to learn about the Medical Language Program at Harvard Medical School. Through our conversation, they give us an overview of the history of medical language education and scope at HMS, hig...
2023-12-2237 minNAMS MedCast's PodcastEpisode 7 - CAMPOS: Donde se cultiva la Concordancia Lingüística (Español Médico at UNC School of Medicine)Send us a textAt NAMS, we are very lucky that we’re able to interview and learn from many of the key individuals who have worked to formalize Medical Spanish educational programs in a number of iterations across the United States, and we are even luckier that many of them are willing to share their life stories and teaching philosophies with us. In this episode, we interview Dr. Marco Aleman and Dra. Ana Bermudez, the leaders of CAMPOS, or Comprehensive Advanced Medical Program of Spanish, a case-based medical Spanish program at the...
2023-11-1442 minNAMS MedCast's PodcastEpisodio 6 - Cerrando la Brecha a través de Conexiones: Learning about the MOLA-NAMS 2023 Summit (Part 2)Send us a textPart 2 of our special collaborative and inspirational conversation between the leadership of NAMS (National Association for Medical Spanish) and MOLA (the Medical Organization for Latino Advancement), two robust organizations that advocate for the professional and health equity advancement of the Latinx/Hispanic population. We had a chance to sit down with MOLA President Óscar Iván Zambrano, as well as Phillip Sierra and Sabrina Martinez from MOLA and Rafael Ramos from NAMS to discuss the upcoming collaborative VII Annual MOLA Latinx Health Symposium and IV NAMS Medical Spanish Summit. We reflect on the ori...
2023-10-0627 minNAMS MedCast's PodcastEpisodio 5 - Cerrando la Brecha a través de Conexiones: Learning about the MOLA-NAMS 2023 Summit (Part 1)Send us a textThis special episode is a collaborative and inspirational conversation between the leadership of NAMS (National Association for Medical Spanish) and MOLA (the Medical Organization for Latino Advancement), two robust organizations that advocate for the professional and health equity advancement of the Latinx/Hispanic population. We had a chance to sit down with MOLA President Óscar Iván Zambrano, as well as Phillip Sierra and Sabrina Martinez from MOLA and Rafael Ramos from NAMS to discuss the upcoming collaborative VII Annual MOLA Latinx Health Symposium and IV NAMS Medical Spanish Summit. We reflect on the...
2023-09-2929 minNAMS MedCast's PodcastEpisode 4 - Old Friends and New Journeys: Experiences in Residency training with Dra. Michelle Disher and Dr. Alec ContagSend us a textEven though many of our initiatives are only a few years old, we owe a lot to the student leaders who took it upon themselves to find a niche for student-led initiatives, projects, and tools when the NAMS was first established. In our fourth episode, we have the pleasure of chatting with la Dra. Michelle Disher and Dr. Alec Contag, the two founders of the Student Coalition when it was first developed in 2019. They formalized many of our goals and community training sessions we've provided over the years, and la Dra. D...
2023-08-2348 minNAMS MedCast's PodcastEpisodio 3 - Much Ado about POLOM: An introduction to the Physician Oral Language Observation MatrixSend us a textNAMS aims to formalize a plethora of projects to measure Spanish-language concordant care initiatives, and we’re very lucky that so many of the members of the NAMS National Board are happy and excited to share their work! In our third episode, we chat with la Dra. Cristina Pérez-Cordón, a Language and Communications Specialist at the United Nations and founding member of NAMS, and with now Dr. Reniell Iñiguez, a first year Internal Medicine Resident at McGaw Medical Center of Northwestern University (4th year medical student at the Universi...
2023-06-1438 minNAMS MedCast's PodcastEpisodio 2 - Student Spotlight #1: MSU CHM Student-led Medical Spanish ElectiveSend us a textIt's always a pleasure to chat with students and future medical professionals who are doing amazing things, asi que sean ustedes bienvenidos al nuestro primer 'Student Spotlight'!In our second episode, we chat with Aldana Garcia and Enrique Cazares, current students at Michigan State University College of Human Medicine (MSU CHM), who designed and implemented their institution's first Medical Spanish Elective course! We talk about how and why they worked to establish this course, how they designed their curriculum, how they found institutional support , and how they ensured this course stayed...
2023-03-0827 minNAMS MedCast's PodcastEpisodio 1 - Meet the Founder: An Interview with la Dra. Pilar OrtegaSend us a text¡Nuestro primer capítulo!For our pilot episode, we have the priviledge of interviewing Dra. Pilar Ortega, founding member of the Medical Organization for Latino Advancement (MOLA) and the first President of the National Association of Medical Spanish (NAMS), where she shares her insights on the origins of NAMS, the key stakeholders in our organization, the scope of our membership, and our overall goals. Dra. Ortega also helps shed some light into the organizations present and future, and how the student leadership drives our language equity work.(Originally Uploaded: No...
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