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MEDICAL
SPANISH COURSE |
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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 |
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Purposes of the
course |
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This program
offers to the students the opportunities of:
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Acting as
speakers, listeners, readers and writers being able to perform in
different communicative contexts with colleagues and patients
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Getting in
touch with the sanitary problems in our country.
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Performing in
real communicative contexts through a shadowing in a hospital.
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Contents |
SPEAKING AND LISTENING
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Perform
interviews
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Answer
questions in an interviewing situation.
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Tell
experiences
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Expose
in front of an audience.
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Listen
to stories and expositions
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Give
and interpret instructions
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PRACTICE OF READING
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Localize
specific information.
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Identify
arguments that express some author’s opinion
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Monitor the
global comprehension process, distinguishing what is comprehended and
what isn’t
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Comment with
others the collected information
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Compare
different interpretations
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Make
relationships between different parts of text using link words and
punctuation properly
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Make
relationships between the given information and previous knowledge about
the subject
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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:
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consider
the addressee,
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adjust
the written production to the pattern,
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revise the text while
writing; consult to other readers during the process of writing and in
the final revision,
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revise the spelling using
the spelling corrector, the dictionary or other written sources.
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Reflection about the language
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Use the Spanish
monolingual dictionary.
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Building words:
suffixes and prefixes
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Derivation of
words: lexical relativity
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Learning
activities
During the
classes, the contents will develop working with material specially
designed for the Medical Spanish course. Students will do:
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role-plays of
interviews, instructions and explanations to patients
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reading of
expositive texts relatives with health regional problems and pathologies
about which consults appear in emergency guards pre surgical files or
clinical histories
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brief
expositions about study subjects
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reflection activities about language
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Sample Weeks 1 and 2
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Monday |
Tuesday |
Wednesday |
Thursday |
Friday |
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9:00 |
Group Classes
(9:00-1:00) |
Group Classes
(9:00-1:00) |
Group Classes
(9:00-1:00) |
Group Classes
(9:00-1:00) |
Group Classes
(9:00-1:00) |
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10:00 |
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11:00 |
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12:00 |
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1:00 |
Lunch |
Lunch |
Lunch |
Lunch |
Lunch |
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1:30 |
Private Lessons (*)
(Medical Spanish material) |
Private Lessons (*)
(Medical Spanish material) |
Private Lessons (*)
(Medical Spanish material) |
Private Lessons (*)
(Medical Spanish material) |
Private Lessons (*)
(Medical Spanish material) |
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3:00 |
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3:30 |
(*)
Schedule of private afternoon classes could vary |
Sample Weeks 3 and 4 (upon availability / subject to student's CV)
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Monday |
Tuesday |
Wednesday |
Thursday |
Friday |
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9:00 |
Hospital Shadowing
(9:00-2:00)
Hours vary by specialty |
Hospital Shadowing
(9:00-2:00)
Hours vary by specialty |
Hospital Shadowing
(9:00-2:00)
Hours vary by specialty |
Hospital Shadowing
(9:00-2:00)
Hours vary by specialty |
Hospital Shadowing
(9:00-2:00)
Hours vary by specialty |
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10:00 |
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11:00 |
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12:00 |
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1:00 |
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2:00 |
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Program Fee U$S 1590. -
Medical Spanish Immersion Program includes : |
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Spanish group classes (2 weeks) |
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Medical Spanish private classes (20) |
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Registration with all its services and materials for Standard
and Medical Spanish |
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Hospital Shadowing ( 2weeks) |
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Hospital Shadowing extra weeks
(optional).
Price for Medical Spanish
students only: extra U$S 280 |
Accommodation
either in homestay or private studio appartments are optional and quoted
separately
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