MEDICAL SPANISH COURSE

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

• 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.

• 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

Sample of a Study Day in Week 1 and 2

Time                          Activities

9Am - 1Pm                Group Classes

1Pm – 1:30Pm            Lunch

1:30Pm – 3:30Pm       Private Lessons
                                   (Medical Spanish material)

Sample of a Working Day in Hospital in Week 3 and 4

Time                          Activities

9Am – 2Pm                Hospital Shadowing
                                  (Hours vary by specialty)