Pilar Ortega

Datos Biográficos

ID3927823
NOMBREPilar Ortega
NOMBRESPilar
APELLIDOOrtega
FIRMAORTEGA P
AFILIACIONESDepartments of Medical Education and Emergency Medicine University of Illinois College of Medicine, Department of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education Chicago Illinois USA
VERIFICADONo
TOTAL DE OBRAS4
TOTAL DE CITAS0
TOTAL COMO AUTOR4
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN2019
AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN2025
ÍNDICE H0

  • I get to relate to my patients

    Open AccessNicole Pérez, Sarah Medina-Aguirre et al.ARTICLESocial Science & Medicine2025Referencias: 44

    While the U.S. Latinx population has rapidly increased in the past 30 years, the number of Latinx physicians has not kept pace. Latinx students are often motivated to pursue medicine to serve those in their communities, which benefits Latinx community health outcomes through patient-clinician cultural and linguistic concordance. However, significant barriers often prevent Latinx people from successfully navigating the transition to and through me…

  • The current state of undergraduate medical Spanish

    Open AccessAlyssia M Miller De Rutté, Isabel María Kentengian et al.ARTICLEForeign Language Annals2023Referencias: 33

    This study investigated the following research question: What is the landscape of medical Spanish offerings in undergraduate, 4‐year universities in US states with large Spanish‐speaking populations? Forty‐four percent of institutions responded to the survey, which explored institutional characteristics, medical Spanish programs and individual courses, and instructors. Nonrespondent institutions' web sites were manually searched. The findings rev…

  • Teaching Medical Spanish to Improve Population Health

    Open AccessPiedad Ortega, Pilar Ortega et al.ARTICLEHealth Equity2019

    The authors propose three structural elements that should be considered when incorporating or enhancing medical Spanish education in medical schools: institutional endorsement of the role of medical Spanish education within a national health disparities context; precourse proficiency testing to establish student starting level; and learner postcourse communications skills and limitations assessment to provide individualized recommendations and as…

  • Strategies for Teaching Linguistic Preparedness for Physicians

    Open AccessPiedad Ortega, Pilar Ortega et al.ARTICLEHealth Equity2019

    In accordance with Liaison Committee on Medical Education (LCME) curriculum content standards, medical schools are expected to teach physician communication skills and cultural competence. Given the sustained U.S. Spanish-speaking population growth, importance of language in diagnosis, and benefits of patient-physician language concordance, addressing LCME standards equitably should involve linguistic preparedness education. The authors present s…