Learn Spanish Abroad
Spanish Language Schools
Buenos Aires, Argentina

Advanced Medical Spanish courses in Argentina + Volunteer programs.

Advanced medical spanish courses in Argentina + Voulnteer programs.

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
• Commentwith 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 address,
• 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 materialspecially 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 surgicalfiles or clinical histories
• brief expositions about study subjects
• reflection activities about language

Sample Weeks 1 and 2

	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday
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)
10:00
11:00
12:00
1:00	Lunch	Lunch	Lunch	Lunch	Lunch
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)
3:00
3:30