Medical Spanish is geared towards advanced students of Medicine or doctors with previous knowledge of the Spanish Language who have reached at least an Intermediate level.

 Recommended modality: 2 weeks of Intensive Spanish program (40 Group classes and 20 one-to-one classes); 2 weeks of shadowing in a hospital

Purposes of the course

This program offers to the students the opportunities of: 

• Acting as speakers, listeners, readers and writers being able to perform in different communicative contexts with colleagues and patients

• Getting in touch with the sanitary problems in our country.

• Performing in real communicative contexts through a shadowing in a hospital.

Contents

SPEAKING AND LISTENING

•  Perform interviews

•  Answer questions in an interviewing situation.

•  Tell experiences

•  Expose in front of an audience.

•  Listen to stories and expositions

•  Give and interpret instructions

PRACTICE OF READING

• Localize specific information.

• Identify arguments that express some author’s opinion

• Monitor the global comprehension process, distinguishing what is comprehended and what isn’t

• Comment  with others the collected information

• Compare different interpretations

• Make relationships between different parts of text using link words and punctuation properly

• Make relationships between the given information and previous knowledge about the subject

PRACTISE OF WRITTING
Write formal letters or e-mails to introduce himself, request information, complain or answer to complains, informs and instructions. In order to do that student will have to:

•  consider the addressee,

•  adjust the written production to the pattern,

• revise the text while writing; consult to other readers during the process of writing and in the final revision,

• revise the spelling using the spelling corrector, the dictionary or other written sources.

Reflection about the language

• Use the Spanish monolingual dictionary.

• Building words: suffixes and prefixes

• Derivation of words: lexical relativity

Learning activities

During the classes, the contents will develop working with material  specially designed for the Medical Spanish course. Students will do:

• role-plays of interviews, instructions and explanations to patients

• reading of expositive texts relatives with health regional problems and pathologies about which consults appear in emergency guards pre surgical  files or clinical histories

• brief expositions about study subjects

• reflection activities about language

(*) Schedule of private afternoon classes could vary

Sample Weeks 3 and 4
 

Program Fee U$S 1.230.-                    
Medical Spanish Immersion Program includes :
 

Spanish group classes (2 weeks)

Medical Spanish private classes (20)

Registration with all its services and materials for Standard and Medical Spanish

Hospital Shadowing ( 2weeks)

Hospital Shadowing 3-8 weeks (optional). Price for Medical Spanish students only: extra U$S 130