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CASS has created this Spanish Course for Medical students and Professionals nurses and medical teams to answer the growing demand for relevant knowledge of Spanish amongst doctors, nurses and other healthcare workers. It is oriented towards improving students basic vocabulary related to healthcare, so that she/he can communicate respectfully and effectively with Spanish speaking patients and their families.

-Levels: Beginners to Advanced
-Duration: 4 weeks
Individual Spanish Courses, Location: La Ceiba

About the Course:

The course is for 4 weeks, Monday through Friday, a total of 80 hours of class time to be given. (Lessons of 50 minutes each)

Distribution of the class hours

First week: 20 hours a week of general Spanish plus vocabulary of Spanish medicine.
Second, third and fourth week: 20 hours of Spanish with vocabulary related to health. The course instruction will be given in Spanish with reference material that contains English translations.
The second and third week: The students will practice working in the Public Hospital in La Ceiba where only Spanish will be spoken. This practice will be in the afternoons. Also in the Public clinic in the Cacao community.

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Course Requirements

• The students may have some knowledge of Spanish or be beginners. If a student is having trouble understanding the lessons, they can solicit extra hours of individual lessons (not included in the price) for reinforcement and help in reaching the level that she/he need for make the practice work in the local Hospital.
• The lessons will be both theoretical and practical, making special emphasis on communication and understand the word that people use and she/he can’t find in the books.
• For the afternoons practice work in the Hospital we required that she/he bring her/him curriculum, or a letter of the teacher or from the college or medical school with information the years your are attending, it is very important required from the Director of the Hospital here in La Ceiba.
• The Director or the Doctor charged of the area in the Hospital that she/he will work can signed any document that student brings in order to guarantied that she/he have attended this program.

Course Contents

• Conversation, Reading, Grammar, Composition and conversation in Spanish:
  Verb conjugation, use of grammar concepts, word and sentence structures, correction of pronunciation, spelling.
• Reading and Composition in Spanish frequently used general vocabulary, forming words, different subject as medical alternative or natural.
  Conversation: in real life situations, Spanish cultural life, current events.
• The teacher will be assigned exercises and practice of communication specific to healthcare also every day the teacher will assigned home work.
• Medical vocabulary and terminology
  . Parts of the body
  . Common medical instruments
  . Medical Expressions
• Attention to the patient
  . Admission and taking a patient’s history
  . Diagnosis and treatment
  . Surgery
  . Trauma

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Medical themes for Conversation

Course Dates and Prices

Program Dates: Starts any Monday.
Application Deadline: 30 days before to start date.

Program Price:

The price includes

• Application and material fee
• 20 hrs of Spanish lessons, 4 hrs a day, From Monday To Friday, during 4 weeks
• The student will receive a Spanish grammar textbook, vocabulary textbook, and a workbook.
• Accommodation with a Honduran family, private room, private bathroom, 3 meals per day, 7 days a week.
• Placement in the public Hospital or the Public clinic in the Cacao community.

  Steps for Registration:

1. Submit the registration form
   
   
2. After we receive this document you will receive instruction for make a deposit for complete your registration.
   
   
3.  To pay the deposit by credit card, you will receive a document called “C.C. Authorization Form” ,  please print  this page, complete it and send it by  mail  or fax with:
   1)  A  copy  of your credit card (both sides) and 
   2)  A copy of your driver's license or other ID,  so  that we can verify  your  signature.                                     
   Without them, the credit card company will not process this authorization.  We  accept VISA-MASTER CARD and AMERICAN EXPRESS.
   
   
4. Then you will receive an e-mail with a voucher describing your Spanish program and your status payment.
   
   
5. Finally you should send us your arrival information as follows:                                       
   a- Arrival city  b- Schedule arrival  c- Flight number  d- Airline name
   
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