Virtual Medical Spanish Education at the Corazón of Hispanic/Latinx Health During COVID-19

Affiliations

¹ Departments of Emergency Medicine and Medical Education, University of Illinois College of Medicine, 808 S. Wood Street, MC 591, Chicago, IL 60612 USA.
² Department of Pediatrics, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC USA.
³ Language and Communication Training Unit, United Nations Headquarters, New York, NY USA.
⁴ Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH USA.

Editorial

Pilar Ortega et al. Med Sci Educ. 2020.

. 2020 Aug 19;30(4):1661-1666.

doi: 10.1007/s40670-020-01058-0. eCollection 2020 Dec.

¹ Departments of Emergency Medicine and Medical Education, University of Illinois College of Medicine, 808 S. Wood Street, MC 591, Chicago, IL 60612 USA.
² Department of Pediatrics, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC USA.
³ Language and Communication Training Unit, United Nations Headquarters, New York, NY USA.
⁴ Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH USA.

No abstract available

Conflict of interest statement

Conflict of interestP. Ortega receives author royalties from Saunders (an imprint of Elsevier) for a textbook.

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