PROPUESTA PARA EL USO PERTINENTE DEL IDIOMA ESPAÑOL EN MEDICINA

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.14409/au.2020.21.e0002

Keywords:

use, relevant, spanish language, medicine

Abstract

Medicine requires the development of specific skills for professional practice (teaching, scientific research and/or assistance). Among them, and within communication skills, the relevant use of the Spanish language is often overshadowed by technical language. Given 1its progressive diachronic deterioration and whatever the medical exercise to be carried out, this paper: (a) proposes a feasible staged repairing sequence of the “language weaknesses”, (b) intends to use said sequence to provide valuable tools for professionals to interact with people of different cultural levels without impairing communication, and (c) makes complementary reflections on its eventual implementation. The first stage seeks to avoid: barbarisms, anglicisms and solecisms (queismo and dequeismo, inappropriate use of the adverbs “where” and “when”, incorrect association of tenses of the subjunctive mode with the conditional tense of the indicative mode, wrong employment of the verbs haber and hallar, dissonant use of fillers and expletives, use of redundancies and frequent confusion between initials and acronyms). The second stage focuses on knowing the true
meaning of unknown words and even those supposedly known, as well as their respective etymologies, and the last stage ventures into synonyms, antonyms, paronyms, homonyms and eponyms.

Author Biographies

Alberto Enrique D'Ottavio, Facultad de Ciencias Médicas y Consejo de Investigaciones UNR

Profesor Honorario Facultad de Ciencias Médicas UNR

Ex Profesor Titular Ordinario Histología y Embriología (1986-2013)

Investigador Superior CIC-UNR

Autor y coautor de artículos, capítulos de libros y libros en temas biomédicos y educacionales-culturales, socializados nacional e internacionalmente

Revisor de trabajos de revistas nacionales y extranjeras

Ex Consultor OPS-OMS

María Eugenia D'Ottavio, Universidad del Gran Rosario

LIcenciada de Psicopedagogía -UNSAM (Sede Rosario)

Profesora de Metodología de la Investigación Científica- Universidad del Gran Rosario

Coautora de trabajos psicopedagógicos y educacionales-culturales

Published

2020-08-05

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Reflexiones teóricas o metodológicas