Course Information

The objective of the course is to learn about Healthcare in Spain by immersing the student totally into the Spanish language and culture. The course consists of 125 lessons of General Spanish and Spanish for Healthcare. There are five lessons per day from 9 AM to 2 PM. Prior knowledge of Spanish is NOT required. Students will be divided into groups according to their proficiency in Spanish. All of the lessons are taught by specially trained instructors at the Pamplona Learning Spanish Institute that are skilled in teaching healthcare topics in Spanish to beginning and more advanced Spanish speaking students.

The learning objectives for the healthcare component of the course will be the same which is to learn about healthcare in today’s Spain. The lessons on these topics will be taught through classroom lectures while learning Spanish and through field laboratory excursions to manufacturing plants, banks, governmental agencies, healthcare organizations, museums, wineries, research centers, newspaper and magazine publishers, and other organizations. There are eighteen to twenty field laboratories during the five weeks in Spain. On these excursions,a Spanish to English translator is used to help educate the student about the healthcare environments that are being toured. This is the only time a translator is utilized.

The objectives for General Spanish will depend on the initial level of the student. Students with little or no Spanish will focus on the following functional goals in the use of the language.

Greetings and presenting
Describing healthcare, people, objects and places
Asking and giving information and advice
Expressing possessions, needs, likes, and preferences
Describing daily routines and frequency
Expressing cause and finality
Asking for permissions, granting and denying
Inviting, offering, accepting and refusing
Expressing suggestions, accepting and refusing them
Expressing future plans
Expressing and asking about quantity
Apologizing and giving excuses
Taking finished actions in a time related to the present

Students with more Spanish speaking abilities will be expected to broaden their use of Spanish in business. For example, these students will be expected to do the following:

Broadened the student’s expressions and vocabulary range in the area of healthcare professions.
Increase the student’s oral fluency to facilitate the interaction between Healthcare professionals and patients and their relatives
Develop listening and reading skills and improve writing skills
Improve knowledge of Spanish business culture.
Acquire learning strategies for the future.
Improve knowledge of Spanish culture.

Topics in healthcare Administration and Policy:

Public Healthcare in Spain
Health and welfare
Family medicine
Health promotional campaigns
Emerging innovations in healthcare
Healthcare policy in Spain
Research Issues in Healthcare
Invention and patents
Legal Environment in Healthcare in Spain
Meetings, clients, and suppliers
Presentations and congress
Maternity and pediatrics
Specialties: Trauma, burns, cardiology
Specialties: Allergy, ophthalmology, dermatology
Specialties: Surgery, radiology, anesthesia
Emergent care
Quality
Healthcare Information Systems
Safety issues
Safety issues
System and process
Nutrition and Diet: Healthy eating habits
Managed care and Case management in Spain
Vision for the future

Students will have free time for individual exploration on the weekends and can travel throughout Spain. Students also may travel, at their expense, prior to or at the conclusion of the program.

Financial Aid: Since the course is six hours, students that meet federal requirements for a guaranteed student loan may apply through the Financial Aid Office at Mary Martin Hall.

To Register: Enrollment is limited to 15 participants. Applications will be accepted immediately. Apply NOW!!!

Contact Linda Byrd, Director
214 Miller Hall
Phone: (334) 844-6758
Email: byrdlin@auburn.edu

Auburn University is an equal opportunity educational institution/employer

Last Updated: Jan. 12, 2011