Lesson 2: Culture and Medicine

Learn About How Culture Impacts Medicine

In this lesson you will be learning about how culture can impact the different ways that medicine and illness are seen in Spanish speaking countries. It is vital to recognize how culture impacts how people see medicine so that you can best serve them. Please watch this video so that you can understand what a cultural illness is.


Cultural Illnesses

It is important to recognize that different cultures have different beliefs and ways of conceptualizing illness.


Practice Recognizing Cultural Illnesses

Situational Practice

In this activity you will be filling in blanks in a paragraph to practice interacting with and diagnosing patients. It will combine practice from lesson 1 and lesson 2.

Talking about injuries

Fill in the missing words