healthcare industry look at addressing healthcare disparities for Hispanics, Hernandez and Deborah German, UCF’s vice president for health affairs and dean, have suggested examining ways to diversify people entering medicine. For example, as technology helps improve care and health monitoring, medical schools might consider admitting more engineers who can help create new, more accessible delivery systems. And increasing the numbers of bilingual medical students /news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/137395/u2014 in languages such as Spanish and Portuguese /news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/137395/u2014 will create more doctors who can communicate with Hispanic patients in their native language./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/137395/nHernandez shares her personal journey through medicine as an illustration./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/137395/n
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