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Supporting Cross-Cultural Understanding through the Spanish Major at Meredith College

Meredith College in Raleigh offers a strong Spanish program with cultural and professional tracks, study abroad, community engagement, and Fulbright success. As an emerging HSI, it supports Hispanic students through scholarships, partnerships, and expanding cross-cultural opportunities like Spanish for Healthcare. 

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Emblematic NPS Hispanic Heritage Sites in the U.S.

Hispanic presence in the U.S. dates back to the 1500s, leaving enduring cultural, religious, and architectural legacies. Historic forts, missions, and monuments preserved today reflect centuries of Spanish exploration and settlement, shaping American identity and enriching society with vibrant Hispanic heritage.

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Hispanic Community August 2025

One Language, Many Voices: Examples of Cultural Diversity in the Spanish Language

Although a language fulfills the essential function of communicating and improving understanding between parties, that is not its  only role. Language is a cultural expression that reflects  a way of feeling, thinking, living, and conceiving the world. For this reason, a single language can display as many variations as the settings in which it is used, geographical, social, and contextual—such as formal or informal registers, age, or education level. Because of this complexity, it is challenging to universalize concepts  on the use of language.

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Top Medical Schools for Hispanics

The field of medicine is known to be one of the most challenging, as well as one of the most necessary in today’s society. All students embarking on this journey face a variety of hurdles; these are greater for those who come from lower-income backgrounds and are the first in their families to attend college, often correlated with belonging to under-represented, rural or recent immigrant communities. These students, who already struggle with access to higher education, find the entrance requirements, higher fees and longer duration of medical studies particularly daunting. 

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Adriana Alcántara

Hispanic Community July 2025

Driven by Passion, Guided by Evidence: How NAMS is Transforming Healthcare by Supporting Patient-Clinician Communication en español

Photo courtesy of NAMS The National Association of Medical Spanish (NAMS) believes in the importance of providing multilingual services to patients, which has been shown to increase trust and avoid medication and diagnosis errors. NAMS is a multidisciplinary, collaborative organization that supports clinicians, educators, students, and institutions in their efforts to promote effective Spanish-language communication in healthcare settings. NAMS also supports assessment and certification for Spanish-language healthcare providers. 

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Pilar Ortega, MD, MGM

Administration July 2025

La Facultad de Medicina de la Universidad de Illinois (UIC), líder en graduados latinos en medicina

Photo by Freepik La Facultad de Medicina de UIC recluta y apoya activamente a estudiantes de grupos minoritarios —especialmente latinos— mediante un proceso de admisión integral, programas de alcance comunitario y su Centro de Excelencia Hispana, con el objetivo de crear una fuerza laboral médica culturalmente competente que aborde las desigualdades en salud en comunidades desatendidas.

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Gary M. Stern

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