Level of knowledge of indigenous language, quechua, in the students at the Faculty of Medicine of the National University of San Marcos
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.15381/anales.v79i3.15321Abstract
Mr. Editor, Quechua is the original language with the most users in Peru, with around 4 million speakers according to the 2007 census. It coexists with the Spanish language in many regions of the sierra, where it is the predominant language, and It is used daily by patients or users of health services. In the Faculty of Medicine of the National University of San Antonio Abad of Cusco, which began operating in 1980, Quechua is a compulsory course.87.1% of the graduates of the first eight promotions considered it important or very important to know that language1. Also, various publications in our environment, give an account of the importance of knowing native languages overcoming prejudices 2,3,4.
Downloads
Published
2018-10-09
Issue
Section
Cartas al Editor
License
Copyright (c) 2018 Anales de la Facultad de Medicina
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
Those authors who have publications with this magazine accept the following terms:
- Authors will retain their copyrights and guarantee the journal the right of first publication of their work, which will be simultaneously subject to Creative Commons Attribution License that allows third parties to share the work as long as its author and its first publication this magazine are indicated.
- Authors may adopt other non-exclusive licensing agreements for the distribution of the version of the published work (eg, deposit it in an institutional electronic file or publish it in a monographic volume) provided that the initial publication in this magazine is indicated.
- Authors are allowed and recommended to disseminate their work over the Internet (eg: in institutional telematic archives or on their website) before and during the submission process, which It can produce interesting exchanges and increase quotes from the published work. (See El efecto del acceso abierto ).
How to Cite
1.
Shimabuku Azato R, Martina Chávez M, Delgado Vásquez A, Angulo Poblete D, Salazar Salvatierra E. Level of knowledge of indigenous language, quechua, in the students at the Faculty of Medicine of the National University of San Marcos. An Fac med [Internet]. 2018 Oct. 9 [cited 2024 Jul. 17];79(3):264-6. Available from: https://revistasinvestigacion.unmsm.edu.pe/index.php/anales/article/view/15321
