An argument is made for integrating Spanish language instruction into education of the interdisciplinary health care team, if not into the medical education of physicians per se.

Physicians with interprofessional networks and environmental health training can better respond to public health crises.

In the past decade, more students than ever entered medical school with the desire, if not the expectation, of participating in meaningful global health experiences.

Many medical schools are associated with a free clinic. Students who speak and learn Spanish can help fill this gap.

Neuroscience should be at the core of a sound sleep health curriculum, especially in early classroom-based medical education. 

Within the United States, many “immersions” happen in student-run indigent care clinics that serve vulnerable populations.

Loneliness is an endemic experience of immigrants to the United States that could be mitigated by cultural brokerage practices in clinical settings.