| Medical Spanish
Program
SA Monteverde has developed one of the most innovative
and intensive Medical Spanish programs in Central America. At
our campus students participating in the Medical program will
receive specific training in class with medical terminology, patient
interviews and anatomy as well as out of class volunteer opportunities
and the chance to observe the Costa Rican medical system.
During the morning students will be placed in
the Standard Group 4 hour Spanish program at their individual
level of ability. Four additional hours a week of class time will
be dedicated to teaching students specific medical vocabulary
as well as practice with real life medical situation such as patient
interviews and family consultations. With medical specific text
and materials along with exercises and classroom activities students
will gain an understanding of how to deal with patients in everyday
situations.
The classroom experience is also backed up by
afternoon visits with local doctors, nurses and other Costa Rican
medical professionals. Students will be placed, as best as possible,
with Costa Ricans of the same specialty and profession. Visits
to local hospitals and clinics help students see and experience
how medicine is practiced in Latin America and specifically Costa
Rica.
We believe this combined approach of in class
exercises and training along with out of classes exposure to real
medical situations and volunteer opportunities is the best learning
approach. All of this is in addition to the regular lessons in
Spanish each day and the immersion of living with a family in
a Spanish speaking country.
Over the years many doctors, nurses, medical
students, paramedics and emergency technicians have attended this
program with a great degree of success. Numerous medical schools
through out the US accept this program for credit and recommend
it to their students. Additional information about this program
is attached below.
Nursing Spanish Program
SA Monteverde is happy to announce the expansion
of our highly successful Medical Spanish immersion program with
the addition of a medical Spanish program devoted solely to nurses,
nurse practitioners, nursing students, or anyone else interested
in learning medical Spanish from the nursing perspective. This
program has been designed to address the special concerns and
areas of interest of the nursing community.
This program will give nurses the ability to
converse with Spanish speaking patients in a clinic environment.
The program's goals are to develop or improve a nurse's Spanish
language abilities in the workplace. Our students will learn standard
Spanish in 4 hour morning classes that have been divided into
one of nine levels based on their individual Spanish proficiency.
The 2 hour afternoon classes and medical visitations have been
designed to accommodate all levels of Spanish ability, and focus
on medical Spanish terminology and Spanish speaking communication
skills.
The class time is supplemented with the addition
of medical site visitations, to local Costa Rican clinics. During
these visitations, under the supervision of our in house nurse/preceptor,
students will accompany nurses in local clinics. Evening talks
are also scheduled once a week with our nursing preceptor and
other local nurses where specific areas of interest to individual
students can be discussed.
Our nursing Spanish classes are structured in
weekly blocks of interrelated subjects which act as a one week
stand alone entity. That way, students joining the program on
any given week will not feel they are entering in mid stream.
The complete program lasts four weeks, but students are welcome
to enroll in fewer weekly sessions as determined by their individual
budget and schedule, without any loss in the continuity of their
program.
The program includes classes, lodging, breakfast
& dinners, all study materials, and various adventure and
cultural tours so that students get a break in their studies to
experience this ecological wonderland.
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