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ESCUELA MILITAR DE GRADUADOS DE SANIDAD

English translation: Military Postgraduate Medical School

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Spanish term or phrase:ESCUELA MILITAR DE GRADUADOS DE SANIDAD
English translation:Military Postgraduate Medical School
Entered by: Tony M

16:57 Apr 24, 2020
Spanish to English translations [Non-PRO]
Medical - Medical: Health Care
Spanish term or phrase: ESCUELA MILITAR DE GRADUADOS DE SANIDAD
I am having trouble with translating this phrase which is on a medical doctor note. From Spanish to English.

I am thinking of, " MILITARY SCHOOL OF HEALTH GRADUATES."

Any suggestions, this document is from Mexico.

Thank y'all.
RCASA0644
United States
Military Post-graduate Medical School
Explanation:
Without looking further into the context (and speaking more Spanish!), I can't check if this is solely post-grad (but it seems that way), nor if it is truly 'medical' — but a Med. School sounds more natural to an EN reader.
If 'health' has to be used (e.g. because it covers a broader base than just 'medicine'), then I would say Miltary Postgraduate College of Health — note how this sort of thing is more usually a 'college' in EN, other than certain fixed expressiond like 'med. school'. In EN, 'Health' tends to feel a bit uncomfortable like that out on a limb; but I don't think we could change it to e.g. 'Health Care', as that implies a whole different set of disciplines.
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Tony M
France
Local time: 18:19
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2 +6Military Post-graduate Medical School
Tony M
2MILITARY SCHOOL OF HEALTH GRADUATES
Becca Resnik


  

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Military Post-graduate Medical School


Explanation:
Without looking further into the context (and speaking more Spanish!), I can't check if this is solely post-grad (but it seems that way), nor if it is truly 'medical' — but a Med. School sounds more natural to an EN reader.
If 'health' has to be used (e.g. because it covers a broader base than just 'medicine'), then I would say Miltary Postgraduate College of Health — note how this sort of thing is more usually a 'college' in EN, other than certain fixed expressiond like 'med. school'. In EN, 'Health' tends to feel a bit uncomfortable like that out on a limb; but I don't think we could change it to e.g. 'Health Care', as that implies a whole different set of disciplines.

Tony M
France
Local time: 18:19
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
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Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Becca Resnik: Good point. "Medical School" would be a very familiar phrase.
13 mins
  -> Thanks, Becca!
agree  Lydia De Jorge
1 hr
  -> Thanks, Lydia!
agree  Neil Ashby
3 hrs
  -> Thanks, Neil!
agree  philgoddard: Postgraduate is one word these days.
6 hrs
  -> Thanks, Phil! Maybe over there in the US; not sure it universally is in GB?
agree  Yvonne Gallagher: yes, postgrad is one word.
16 hrs
  -> Thanks, Yvonne!
agree  writeaway: Asker is in the US and it is postgrad. My 2 years of secondary school Spanish would have come in handy here.
17 hrs
  -> Thanks, W/A!
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13 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 2/5Answerer confidence 2/5
MILITARY SCHOOL OF HEALTH GRADUATES


Explanation:
Chiming in that I think your guess may be a fair one, partially because they use the term "post-graduate," so it probably is a plus to say "graduate."

proporciona estudios de postgrado

An alternative could involve the word "alumni," but I still think "graduates" is better.

(Marking confidence as "low" primarily because my specialty is DE>EN.)

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Note added at 45 mins (2020-04-24 17:42:37 GMT)
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From the Corpus of Contemporary English:

It looks like "Military School for" is mostly related to time spans and descriptive phrases:



"Military School of" has a hit for a school name, but just one at that:



From the British National Corpus:

Interestingly, there were no hits for "Military School for."

There was only one for "Military School of," and it was a school name:




    https://www.gob.mx/sedena/acciones-y-programas/escuela-militar-de-graduados-de-sanidad
Becca Resnik
United States
Local time: 12:19
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
neutral  Tony M: Military School of... sounds wrong with people; it might work if it were the subject area, say 'Engineering' or 'Medicine'; but with people, at best, I'd expect 'for'
16 mins
  -> That's an interesting point! I think I'll take a look at a corpus or two and see which one seems more common, and in what context. OP, could you clarify if this localization is into American English, UK English, or another variation?
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