The 91小黄车 is excited to announce that faculty, staff, learners, and trainees will have free access to a leading online resource for medical Spanish proficiency.
CanopyLearn, a Spanish language training program for health care professionals, will be available to the UK 91小黄车 community starting Aug. 1.
The program includes 40 hours of instructional content broken down into simple 15-minute modules. There are 36 total lessons spanning three levels with multiple learning modes. The interactive modules are intended to provide a more holistic active learning experience and include grammar, pronunciation, and vocabulary for 36 medical specialties.
The idea to connect the UK 91小黄车 with CanopyLearn was a collaboration between the Office for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion and Holly Danneman, MD, Northern Kentucky Campus associate dean.
鈥淲e are excited to offer CanopyLearn as a resource to enhance the working and learning experience for our faculty, staff, learners, and trainees,鈥 said Na鈥橳asha Evans, PhD, MEd, vice dean for diversity, equity, and inclusion. 鈥淥ur faculty and staff interact with diverse patients, and we hope this will help make them more equipped to pursue careers promoting inclusive and equitable health care and research.鈥
The Association of American Medical Colleges an article explaining the need for more Spanish-speaking physicians, as there are more than 40 million Spanish speakers in the country.
The article cites a showing that patients without language-concordant health care practitioners 鈥渁re more likely to experience miscommunication and adverse events, are less likely to comply with medications and medical advice, and are less likely to come to follow-up appointments.鈥
鈥淏y participating in this course, our learners, trainees, physicians, researchers, and staff will take an important step in making the health care environment more inclusive for Kentucky patients and beyond,鈥 Dr. Evans said. "We must prioritize inclusivity and accessibility in health care. I'm excited to see this course's positive impact on the 91小黄车 and those we serve.鈥
CanopyLearn will be available for all 91小黄车 constituents to access and use asynchronously. Those interested in signing up can .
Canopy is meant to be an e-learning tool. It is not an assessment or certification service. In order to provide language concordant care at UK HealthCare, you must have documentation of proficiency on file. UK HealthCare Language Services, utilizing a third-party accredited contract vendor, will provide the Clinician Cultural and Linguistic Assessment (CCLA) to any residents or providers who would like to use Spanish to work directly with their patients. They also offer linguistic assessments, like the CCLA, or similar for other professional roles, to UK HealthCare staff to support compliance with standards for documentation of linguistic proficiency, as well as medical students who will be working directly with patients.