LanguageMate To Unveil Private Tutor Medical Spanish at the Association for American Medical Colleges (AAMC) Annual Meeting

LanguageMate To Unveil Private Tutor Medical Spanish at the Association for
American Medical Colleges (AAMC) Annual Meeting
First-of-its-kind e-learning program prepares healthcare practitioners to
overcome communication barriers with Spanish-speaking patients

NEW YORK, Nov. 4 /PRNewswire/ -- LanguageMate, the leader in the development
of communication solutions for the healthcare field, announced today it will
unveil the academic version of its medical Spanish product at the upcoming
Association for American Medical Colleges (AAMC) Annual Meeting. The
technology will be demonstrated at the LanguageMate booth #408 from November
6-11( )at the Hynes Convention Center in Boston, MA.

Private Tutor Medical Spanish (PTMS) is the first web-based language study
tool of its kind funded by the National Institutes of Health. The program was
designed to create a resource that enables healthcare institutions to enhance
quality of care, improve patient safety, and elevate satisfaction levels for
both patients and providers. Developed for and by healthcare professionals,
PTMS offers three progressive levels of target proficiency. By combining best
practices from the fields of second language acquisition and multimedia
design, the system emulates the experience of learning a language from an
experienced private tutor.

"With the incredible diversity of culture in the United States, it is
imperative that medical students learn to be culturally able physicians.
Spanish is the primary language spoken by over 15% of the population in the
U.S., and it is critical that medical students learn to effectively
communicate with this population in order to adequately care for them," said
Dr. Erica Friedman, Associate Dean for Undergraduate Medical Education at the
Mount Sinai School of Medicine (MSSM), one of the sites that participated in
pilot trials of PTMS. "LanguageMate's Private Tutor Medical Spanish provides
the necessary flexibility to allow students and other healthcare providers to
learn medical Spanish during their incredibly demanding schedules. The program
is easy to use and allows for tomorrow's technology savvy physicians and
healthcare providers to feel more confident in their ability to communicate
with their Spanish-speaking patients."

Among the many challenges of practicing medicine, communicating effectively
with patients is one of the most salient. With more than 24 million people
with Limited English Proficiency (LEP) in the country, there is a significant
barrier to obtaining equitable healthcare. By adapting PTMS, medical schools
can help prepare tomorrow's healthcare professionals for the challenges ahead.

"PTMS is the combination of over three years of hard work by a very dedicated
team of medical educators, linguistic researchers, computer scientists, and
curriculum designers," said William Z. Tan, Founder and President of
LanguageMate. "The AAMC Annual Meeting is a wonderful opportunity for
LanguageMate to showcase PTMS to the academic medical community."

The technology will be demonstrated at the Association for American Medical
Colleges (AAMC) Annual Meeting from November 6-11( )at the Hynes Convention
Center in Boston, MA. The meeting is a gathering of medical schools, teaching
hospitals, academic and professional organizations leading to improve public
health through medical education, research, and high quality patient care.

About LanguageMate

LanguageMate is the leader in the development of communication solutions in
the healthcare field. The company's mission is to create tools that enable
healthcare institutions to enhance the quality of care and improve patient
satisfaction. LanguageMate has received more than a dozen Small Business
Innovation Research grants from the National Institutes of Health since 2004
to transform the delivery of health education and health services. By
providing communication solutions, LanguageMate strives to help patients and
service providers transcend the boundaries of language, culture, and
geography.

For more information, visit: www.languagemate.com.

SOURCE LanguageMate

LanguageMate, Isabela Joffe, Marketing Associate, +1-212-274-1654 ext. 39,
ijoffe@languagemate.com, or Baer Consulting Inc., Michele Baer, Founder and
President, +1-973-233-0044, michele@baerconsulting.com