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Polyglot Med Spanish app for iPhone and iPad


4.1 ( 1191 ratings )
Education Medical
Developer: Duke AHEC Program
Free
Current version: 1.1, last update: 7 years ago
First release : 23 Feb 2011
App size: 35.54 Mb

Polyglot Med Spanish is easy to use and the perfect tool to bridge the communication gap between health care providers and Spanish-speaking patients. Polyglot Med Spanish offers immediate audio translation of over 3,000 common words, phrases and assessment questions from English to Spanish and from Spanish to English.

While you are sitting in a café or waiting at the airport, you can practice medical words, phrases, or entire assessment questions! If you have to conduct a mental health assessment or a prenatal assessment on a Spanish speaking patient, we have the phrases you need to get started. Polyglot Med Spanish offers phrases categorized in conversations to allow the health care provider to practice a series of assessment or conversational questions structured to solicit a “yes” or “no” response.

With over 3,000 grammatically correct medical terms and phrases, Polyglot Med Spanish is sure to have the word, phrase or question you need no matter what your clinical setting.

Features:

• Polyglot Med Spanish audio is recorded by a native Spanish speaker.
• Polyglot Med Spanish has a simple, clean, and uncluttered interface.
• Polyglot Med Spanish has both Spanish and English audio recordings.
• Search is available for every list - not just one global index - so the search is intuitive and easy to access.
• Clinical assessment questions are categorized into searchable phrase books and conversations.
• The interface allows continuous play of conversations in both Spanish and English.
• All assessment questions are formatted to solicit “yes or no” responses.
• Content has been carefully crafted and refined by actual medical practitioners over the course of 10 years.

Disclaimer:

I agree that the Polyglot software is intended as an audio language guide for the sole uses of 1) English-speaking health care personnel learning and practicing Spanish phrases that may be relevant to providing medical care to Spanish-speaking patients or 2) Spanish-speaking health care personnel learning English phrases that may be relevant to providing medical care to English-speaking patients. Polyglot is not intended to be used for directly conversing with patients or their families and is not intended as a substitute for trained health care translators. The Duke University School of Medicine is not responsible for any language errors in the software or for its use other than for its intended purposes.

Latest reviews of Polyglot Med Spanish app for iPhone and iPad

Learn Spanish
Great app for health professionals. Its divided into categories for words, phrases, and conversation. You need to turn the volume way up to hear the speaker, and I can see how a non Spanish speaker could with not too much difficulty pull up the category of questions for a particular complaint to either "play" back to the patient or pronounce themselves. The problem then is understanding what the response means. A universal translator like on Star Trek would be great.
Great resource!
I thought it was a great tool as well. I really liked the phrases and other categories. The sound was a little low for me, but you can definitely work around that! Good job!
Good Medical Spanish App
It has fairly good organization and a decent list of phrases and words. The audio is well done both in English and Spanish. Thank you for making it free.
Great tool to support medical Spanish
App is very helpful even for good Spanish speakers. I especially like the organization by phrases and being able to listen to a native Spanish speaker pronounce them. The full conversation tool is also great.
Helpful resource
Useful resource for health care professionals and support teams. Especially helpful to hear the correct pronunciations in Spanish. Organization of information makes it easy to access phrases and words one needs to interact with clients.
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