Professional language use by alumni of the Harvard Medical School Medical Language Program.

Background: Despite the growing number of patients with limited English proficiency in the United States, not all medical schools offer medical language courses to train future physicians in practicing language-concordant care. Little is known about the long-term use of non-English languages among physicians who took language courses in medical school. We conducted a cross-sectional study to characterize the professional language use of Harvard Medical School (HMS) alumni who took a medical language course at HMS and identify opportunities to improve the HMS Medical Language Program.

Health professional students in community service: insights from trainees and their mentors.

Objectives: To gain insights from the experiences of student health professionals working with agencies caring for the underserved.

Methods: Five hundred and sixty-six (566) U.S.