Medical Spanish is a Virtual Conversations(R) language program for health professionals who need to communicate with Hispanic patients who have difficulty speaking English. This program gives you the unique opportunity to practice taking the medical history of such a patient. You ask the questions in Spanish and the virtual patient answers in Spanish.

The Patient

The Patient in this program is a 78-year-old woman with a history of heart trouble. Your objective is to interview her in her native tongue. Speaking Spanish, you will obtain the medical information you need to make sound clinical decisions about her health care. If you participate fully in this virtual clinical interview, you will experience the feeling of getting to know this patient and her medical history. Soon, you will be speaking to your own patients in Spanish!

The Instructor

Medical Spanish also includes an Instructor, a Hispanic physician, who helps you learn and pronounce the medical history questions and phrases you will use to interview the virtual patient. In this portion of the program, you can also:

What are Virtual Conversations Programs?

Virtual Conversations(R) programs combine digital video and voice recognition technology (Dragon Systemsr VoiceTools) to allow the user to engage in a dialogue with a virtual human subject using spoken language. patented this process in 1991 (U.S. Patent #5,006,987).

How do Virtual ConversationsÖ programs work?

Users conduct virtual dialogues with video subjects_real people_by speaking into a microphone attached to the computer. The user asks a question and the character responds, and a face-to-face dialogue ensues. The programs have an Intelligent Scrolling Prompts feature which provides relevant questions for the user to ask. Virtually everyone reports that the dialogue experience is "like talking to a real person." The believability and educational effectiveness of these programs have been established through field tests conducted at institutions of higher learning, both locally and nationally.

Who Uses Virtual ConversationsÖ programs?

Is developed Virtual ConversationsÖ programs for: Professional Education/ Virtual ConversationsÖ programs have been developed to allow physicians to practice HIV detection and counseling with virtual patients. patients to question a physician about breast health . linguists to practice conversing with native speakers. students to learn about a subject by interviewing an expert

The potential applications of Virtual ConversationsÖ programs are unlimited.

Do the programs run on a Macintosh?

At this time, the programs are IBM PC compatible and do not run on Apples.

Is the Virtual ConversationsÖ method educationally effective?

As part of its research and development, we routinely conducts scientifically controlled field tests of new Virtual ConversationsÖ applications. The majority of test subjects report that they feel like they've talked to a real person. In addition, these experiments have proven that this method produces statistically significant learning gain and a positive attitude shift after a single exposure to the program.

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