MEDICAL SPANISH IMMERSION PROGRAM
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Design & Objectives
Week 1: June 30 - July 5, 2025
In person in Ensenada, Baja California, Mexico. You will…Refresh your Spanish with Spanish language and Medical Spanish classes
- Learn and practice Spanish expressions in various contexts, including
- how to introduce yourselves to patients
- how to interview patients regarding their medical history
- how to interview patients regarding history of present illness - Meet and befriend Mexican medical student peer mentors, with whom
you’ll practice both conversational fluency as well as clinical dialogues through provider-patient role-plays - Immerse yourself in the Spanish language and in Mexican culture through relationships with your peer mentors and your host family, and explore all that Ensenada has to offer
Week 2 : July 6 - 11, 2025
in-person in Ensenada, Baja California, Mexico. In this week, students will:
- Learn specific terminology—both technical and colloquial—regarding anatomy and bodily systems, including:
- Respiratory, Cardiovascular, Digestive, Nervous, and Reproductive systems - Participate in community health surveys in underserved rural communities as part of Universidad Xochicalco’s Public Health and Community Medicine program, and learn how to analyze this data to learn about the local population’s health barriers and proposed solutions
- Participate in binational research projects with Mexican medical student peer mentors, and have the opportunity to present your findings along with your peer mentor in Spanish, if you choose
- Take part in a variety of fun cultural activities (games and cooking and dance workshops) and trips around Ensenada, including gastronomy and wine tours at Valle de Guadalupe
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2025 Medical Spanish Immersion (Full Payment)
2025 Medical Spanish Immersion Program (Payment Plan)
Calendar of the first week
Learn to estabilish rapport with your patient. In the Doctor - Patient Unit, you will learn to greet, empathize and have conversations with your patients in Spanish
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Calendar of the second week
Understand pathologies. Once you learn to establish rapport, it is crucial to understand what is happening to your patient internally.
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