Any advice, spanish only speaking pedi patient?

Get a Spanish medical dictionary and see if you can both communicate using the dictionary? If you don't speak Spanish, I wouldn't try to figure things out without a translator of some sort. You could miss something very important.

One wonders why you would be given a patient with whom you cannot communicate. Is it really the best thing for the patient to have a student who doesn't speak Spanish? If you spoke Spanish maybe, but when a patient can't communicate properly with you surely someone who is experienced would be better for the patient?

I mean no disrespect to your abilities.

I have an idea....

What a great time to show you really can advocate for a patient...ask you Prof. "if this child must have a student, wouldn't it be better blah blah blah".

Of course it depends on your Prof. and your relationship with him/her -- if they took it as a challenge that would be a bummer. As always, do it privately.

I would love to hear how this works out -- as I bet during our careers this will happen more than once.

Good luck