title: Caring for Hispanic patients interactively: simulations and practices for allied health professionals.
abstract: Healthcare providers have a new tool for navigating the challenges of cross-cultural communication when treating Hispanic patients: CHISPA e-learning environment. CHISPA, which means "spark" in Spanish, stands for Caring for the Hispanic Patient Interactively: Simulations and Practices for Allied Health Professionals. It is a computer-based training program that provides solutions to both cultural and linguistic barriers to care. The program allows users to interact with Hispanic patients in realistic patient-care scenarios and receive feedback on their choices, along with a wealth of information on cultural variables, advice on overcoming language barriers, and language exercises to facilitate learning medical terms and expressions in Spanish.
authors.affiliation: Long Beach City College, Long Beach, California, USA. samits@lbcc.edu
authors.forename: Amit
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Schitai
mesh_terms: D000488:Allied Health Personnel / Q000193:education* / Q000523:psychology; D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D002983:Clinical Competence / Q000592:standards; D003144:Communication Barriers; D003198:Computer Simulation; D003194:Computer-Assisted Instruction / Q000379:methods*; D018864:Cultural Diversity; D006630:Hispanic or Latino / Q000208:ethnology*; D006801:Humans; D007318:Inservice Training / Q000379:methods*; D020407:Internet; D008370:Manuals as Topic; D017145:Models, Educational; D019212:Multimedia; D016544:Patient Simulation; D010865:Pilot Projects; D011369:Professional-Patient Relations; D015397:Program Evaluation; D036301:Qualitative Research; D014584:User-Computer Interface