Languages
Spanish for health care professionals
Area:
Language / Lengua
This course is designed for future health professionals (doctors, nurses, medical assists, paramedics’ EMT, administrators, ect.) who need to use Spanish at their workplace. The course has an especially practical approach that includes learning medical terminology, understanding the most commonly used grammatical structures and learning culture aspects that every health care professional should know. The objectives of this course are:
1. Improve the ability for students to communicate in a medical context
2. Understand the differences between medical terminology in Latin American and in Spain
3. Understand the principle cultural differences between the United States and Spain
4. Finally, guide the student through the health field in Spain
NOTE: this course has a fee of 100€ per student
Prerequisites: an intermediate level of Spanish
Field trips:
Visit to the hospital Principe de Asturias in Alcalá
Students will visit a Social Security hospital in Alcalá and will interview doctors, nurses or another person related to a profession in the medical field.
